Brick-and-mortar is just getting started 💳

 

Startups are saving retail.

Brick-and-mortar spending is expected to grow by $36 billion over the next four years, and e-commerce by $50 billion, according to a study by Deloitte. But as new technology closes the gap between online browsing and in-store buying, spending could go even higher.

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Black Friday rush

 

The US shopping sales of Black Friday have now become firmly established this side of the Puddle. Mad crushes of shoppers charging into stores and practically duelling with each other over cut-price blenders at 6 am. Ah no, I’ll sit this one out.

Credits: FUNNY CLONE via Metro

Little shopper

 

… is befuddled by the escalator.

Credits: Twicsy.com via ‫طارق ارفاعيه‬‎, GIFs new and Google+

Hi-tech balancing act

Simply amazing…balancing a tablet on his forehead while standing on a swegway at a Russian shopping mall….then the kid comes with a low-tech method of sabotaging the man’s act.

Credits: Via Yahiya Mv, Gifs Lovers and Google+

When we was younger we always took the stairs

An elderly shopper rides in style in what was probably her first ever encounter with a modern-day shopping centre escalator.

“Ooooh, Doris, these moving stairs are quite something!”

Credits: 4GIFS.com (Animated GIFs) via ‎Al Heden Chrism‎, Awesome GIF’s and Facebook