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Want to be sure you get a parking spot at the mall on Black Friday? Maybe you should get a robot to guard your place for you! A startup called MyPark is offering exactly that service, courtesy of its spot-guarding mobile app and collapsible 'robot' guardians. Here's how it works.

Walmart has an idea for a high-tech shopping cart that can detect your heart rate, temperature, and how tightly you're gripping the cart's handle. The data could help Walmart to improve the shopping experience, as well as respond quickly to any accidents or health-related problems among its customers.

We've rounded up details about the best sales from today's top retailers, with information about when to shop and what to look for at each. Whether you're browsing in-store or online, we've got you covered.

Carrying bags full of your purchases home after a hard day's shop is a pain. Dropit is an app that takes this away, and turns retail shopping into a more pleasurable experience, by adding in one of the best things about shopping online -- home delivery. We tried the app out in London.

Google has expanded support for Google Pay to desktop browsers including Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as making it compatible with iOS. This will give the existing 100 million users a wider range of platforms to use the quick-pay service on, and could exponentially increase the number of users.

Walmart is taking on Amazon once again in its quest to become your convenient, budget-friendly retailer of choice. It just added 500 new Pickup Towers.

Walmart, like Amazon, is reported to be developing a cashier-free store experience where shoppers can simply grab what they need and leave.

Has Akihabara in Tokyo, Japan been completely overtaken by all things manga and anime, or is it still a tech-fan’s dream? We visited to find out.

Fresh off a $5.5 million funding round, it's no wonder that Drop will be helping you earn some extra cash as you exercise your credit card.

Instagram is set to feature more shoppable posts after Shopify and BigCommerce opened its ecommerce tools to more merchants.

British e-commerce giant Asos has rolled out a new visual search tool that allows you to find your latest statement piece using your camera.

Amazon's new Dash Wand can scan barcodes just as well as the old model, but it also supports the full range of Alexa voice commands.

Amazon is prepping a new grocery service where you can shop online and then collect your order at a time that suits you.

Amazon is offering shoppers discounts on hundreds of digital items as part of its Digital Day sale. We've handpicked some of our personal favorites.

Online meal-planning company eMeals is collaborating with grocery delivery service Instacart to create "the ultimate meal kit alternative."

The holiday shopping season is upon us, which means great deals in home appliances. If you're shopping for gifts or yourself, choices and good deals abound.

Rather than saving paper ads and scurrying from site to site, bookmarking as you go, add some organization to your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping.

Now that Prime Day 2016 has come and gone, it is time to look at how Amazon did on its second-annual fake holiday.

You love it, but where can you buy it? Thanks to Pinterest's new visual search shopping feature, all your pints are only a click away.

Mozilla is experimenting with a feature called Containers, which aims to separate business, personal, shopping, and banking in the web surfing experience.