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Sports Direct: Sneak into Basket.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
21 Oct 2013
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“Sports Direct sneaks an item into the customers cart when they go to checkout. To remove it, the user must click “back to bag”, where the sneaked-in item will appear – even though it didn’t before.”

Sports Direct was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over an item appearing in the customer’s basket. According to the entry, Sports Direct sneaks an item into the customer’s cart when they go to checkout, and to remove it the user must click “back to bag”, where the sneaked-in item then appears even though it had not been there before.