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"When you're in a store, how do you make sure you couldn't get a better deal online? Well, you could use an app such as Amazon's Price Check and save a few bucks. To make it even more attractive, the company will offer you a one-day discount on December 10th if you use the app in a store, Amazon announced today.\r\n\r\nAnyone using Amazon's Price Check app in-store on that day will get a 5% discount capped at $5 on up to 3 eligible products. According to Amazon, December 10th will be one of the biggest days of the year for Price Check, and certainly for Christmas shopping.\r\n\r\nIn practical terms, you can use the app to check a price\u00A0on your Android phone or iPhone. According to Amazon, you can either scan a barcode, take a picture of the product, say its name or simply search for it - and you'll know immediately whether it's a bargain or not.\r\n\r\nWhile the app isn't new, this announcement shows Amazon is clearly prepared to take its competition with physical stores one step up. With this discount, it literally offers you an incentive to leave a store without buying the product you intended to. If you need a proof of it, the discount only works when geo-location is enabled.\r\n\r\nWhat big box chains will think of Amazon directly poaching their clients remain to be seen; after all, companies such as Wal-Mart are also selling Amazon's products such as the Kindle Fire (see our post). One thing is for sure, competition around price couldn't be stiffer.\r\n\r\nWhat it also shows is the impact of mobile in breaking barriers between the &amp;quot;online&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;physical&amp;quot; worlds. Not surprisingly, Amazon has been increasingly betting on mobile solutions lately, developing\u00A0apps\u00A0such as Amazon Deals and Amazon Windowshop across multiple platforms. Still, it is the first time it has chased store customers so openly.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 \u00A0Amazon Price Check, via the App Store and the Android Market"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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