Of the 1,200 people surveyed, the majority plan to use location-based media to snag coupons and discounts. We rounded up some of the most buzzed-about location-based shopping tools on the Web to help you in your holiday shopping.

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BANGALORE (Reuters) - Shopping in a U.S. department store? Surveillance cameras may be watching, and not because you might be a shoplifter. In minutes, video of which aisles you visited, what products you picked up and put down, what you bought and the displays that caught your fancy will be sent to a company in Bangalore, India. "These logs can be analyzed to determine propensity to purchase, what a customer's intent, satisfaction, sentiment is," said Dhiraj Rajaram, CEO of Mu Sigma, which says it is among the world's biggest pure-play data analytics companies. ...

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