Recently, the New York Times ran a story on the arrival of cell-phone shopping, and profiled some companies tapping into such services. One, NearbyNow, does this by prompting pedestrians to send a text message to instantly receive a hot list of current sales at local stores and malls. What kind of impact will mobile marketing tools such as NearbyNow have on localized shopper marketing?

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