April 16, 2007 6:55 AM PDT
New form of impulse: Shopping via text message
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Consumers will see more text-message codes in magazine ads and editorial pages, and more purchases made by thumb.
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- This is awesome. There have been many occasions where I saw something I wanted to buy, but was unable to find it later when I was at my PC. Now if you could figure out how to keep it away from my wife.......
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- How does it work?
- I can understand the ordering part of it, but how does the retailer get paid for the goods? Is it an extra charge on their cell-phone bill?
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- How does it work?
- I can understand the ordering part of it, but how does the retailer get paid for the goods? Is it an extra charge on their cell-phone bill?
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