Frictionless.com, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers the electronic equivalent of a well-informed shop assistant.

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Inside one of them was 38-year-old shop assistant Arturo Pacheco(ph).

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In front of a newly-opened phone shop, the sales assistant flashed an iPhone to the Foxconn employees, with everyone focused on his every "cool" gesture, as if it was something new.

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