How using your phone while shopping 'makes you spend more and forget what you originally wanted to buy' Fairfield University, Conn. researchers tested shopper's concentration in stores Heavy phone use led to ‘considerable distraction’ and 'unplanned purchases' 93 per cent of those asked admitted to using their phones while out shopping
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 02:02 BST, 6 May 2019 | Updated: 07:27 BST, 6 May 2019
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We've all experienced the moment when we’ve gone into a shop, clean forgotten what we were meant to be buying – and picked up something we didn’t even need instead.
Now this niggling – and expensive – habit could be being made worse by your mobile phone, experts say.
Research shows that shoppers who are chatting, texting, checking emails or listening to music on their phones while browsing the shelves become easily
