About six weeks after I took part in the 36 Questions That Make You Fall In Love experiment, a woman approached me as I browsed magazines in a bookshop in Lagos, Nigeria.
As Davis waited outside, I browsed in quaint, British-flavored shops, but found mostly cheap knickknacks emblazoned with "Bermuda" or expensive crystal and cashmere sweaters imported from England.
I distinctly remember my younger self being somewhat wary of buying an entire album of acoustic guitar instrumentals, but the more I listened to The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death playing in the background as I browsed the racks of a now long-gone second-hand record shop in Camden Town, the more it cast its spell.
Carphone's own stores already gives tablets to shoppers as they browse in-store, with an app-style programme called "Pin Point" to help them choose products — a move that the British firm claims has boosted sales significantly.
"It's a zoo in this place," she said, as she browsed in Victoria's Secret.
As we browsed in the children's department on the basement level, we overheard a father speaking softly to his 4-year-old daughter.
It doesn't have to be that crazy.' " Part of the retailers' strategy is to slap back at online stores like Amazon.com, which last year used apps to pick off shoppers as they browsed in physical stores.
If the dropper spots antivirus software on your phone it will actually stop notifications but it will still recommend downloads as you browse in your default browser, a gateway to grabbing more (and worse) malware.
VMBeacon is a new product enabling store mannequins to transmit information to shoppers about the clothes on display, via their smartphones as they browse in store or through a shop window.
In the age of instant gratification and lightening-speed technology, the 21st-century meet-cute is about as romantic as browsing the cereal aisle in the grocery store.
