There's no nice way to say this - a bricks and mortar shopping trip can often be a stressful experience. Technology has long been touted as the saviour of the user experience in physical retail but there's a long history of false promises, high hopes and missed chances.
You could fill a graveyard with all the technologies that have been proclaimed as “the future of retail”. For example, QR codes were hailed as a way of bringing a richer, more informed experience to the real world, until it became apparent no one knew how to scan them!
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/engagement/cx-in-retail-whats-hype-whats-hot-whats-not/
Being mobile centric, offering alternative payment options such as the ability to pay later and enabling one-click repeat purchase are all key to winning over online Christmas shoppers.
So says new research by payments provider Klarna, which harvests the views of more than 2,000 consumers to reveal that shoppers are so stressed out in the extended run up to Christmas that they’re overwhelmed when the day itself arrives.
http://internetretailing.net/2017/12/retailers-must-invest-mobile-payments-ease-pain-christmas-customer-experience/