From Thailand to US, businesses reopen to a strange new normal

Customers adapt to tracing QR codes, closed fitting rooms and robot servers

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MARIMI KISHIMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Many shoppers ventured out to the Central World when the capital's shopping mall opened for the first time in two months on Sunday. But they had to first "check in" at the door by using their smartphone to scan QR codes displayed by attendants.

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