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To be fair, I don’t do much shopping from my smart phone, so the new excitement around e-commerce mobile apps is sort of like: mind-BLOWN. Fab has a new one to discover high-design gear on the go, Thrillist’s JackThreads mobile brings in 30% of the site’s 3 million users and The RealReal has one so you can buy and sell second-hand couture from the comfort of your private jet, but I’m still left scratching my head.
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