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Remember when retailers were afraid of shoppers with phones?
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Rick MossIt wasn't all that long ago that brick and mortar retailers were huddling to figure out ways to block their shoppers from using their phones in-store to "showroom" (i.e., use the store as a showroom for online ordering), but the industry has come so far. Retail chains are now tripping over each other to provide consumers with more product information, "endless-aisle" ordering and digital payments via their phones. And yet a number of nagging problems stand in the way of customer satisfaction.