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Have you ever been scrolling through your favorite online store, only to wish you could share your finds with a friend? What if we told you that there’s a way to do just that? Welcome to the world of virtual squad shopping. Social distancing norms may have eased, but offline shopping has only decreased. In fact, most people prefer online shopping to offline shopping due to various reasons. Though we’re sure all of us miss shopping with our besties!
In this blog post, we’ll show you how to collaboratively shop online with friends. From setting up a virtual dressing room to using social media to shop together, we’ve got you covered. So what are you waiting for? Grab your besties and let’s get shopping!
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What is virtual squad shopping?
Think squad shopping, but virtual (duh)! Virtual squad shopping allows you to shop online with your friends as if you’re at the mall together!
Virtual squad shopping is a great way to shop with friends if you’re not in the same location. It’s also a great way to get opinions on items before you buy them. You can shop for clothes, shoes, beauty products, and more. You can also chat with your friends while you shop, and share your thoughts on the items you’re looking at. In fact, with Carrot, you can even collaborate on the same shopping lists! Keep reading to find out how.
What is Carrot?
To put it very simply, Carrot is a browser extension for Chrome that automatically collects and keeps track of your shopping carts.
Carrot has teamed up with over 500,000+ stores and counting, making your online shopping experience even smoother. Even if you’re a big shopper, there are probably a few stores you haven’t heard of. Carrot will help you discover new brands, and who knows, you might just find yourself a new favorite store! Plus, you know when you add something to your cart but refrain from buying it because it’s too expensive? Adding to Carrot notifies you of any price drops that may take place on that product in the future! How cool is that?
Clicking the “add to cart” button on any shopping website automatically adds the item you are looking at to Carrot! This saves every shopping item you have ever viewed in one place. Plus, you can create different collections or wishlists and share them with friends or family.
Carrot also allows you to save your picks so you can easily compare items on quality, sizing, and reviews side-by-side. So you’re less likely to make a decision you regret!
How can Carrot help you with virtual squad shopping?
Create shopping collections/wishlists
Whatever items you’ve saved to Carrot can be further divided into different collections per category or however else you want to distinguish them. All you need to do is open your Carrot app and click on “New Collection”.
Manage and share collections
You can totally customize your Carrot collections! Add or remove products from a collection whenever you want, share the names of your collections, and add or remove multiple items from multiple stores with a simple multi-select action. Plus, you can also share your collections, make collections public or private, and give or receive feedback on your products and collections.
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Add collaborators to collections
This is where it gets really fun. Carrot now offers the option to add collaborators to a collection, meaning you and your squad can store all your cool finds in one single place! No more making of elaborate excel sheets or spamming the group chats with multiple links. Simply Add to Carrot and get the squad shopping party started!
Carrot: the newest member of your virtual shopping squad
Shopping online with your squad has never been easier. Carrot makes it easy to shop for items together with your friends, no matter where they are. You can also see what items they have in their carts and get recommendations from them on what to buy.
Carrot makes squad shopping fun and easy, and you’ll never have to go to the mall again! And using it is super easy. Simply add to Chrome, sign in, and get shopping! There are no downsides to virtual squad shopping with Carrot. Did we mention it’s absolutely free?