Page Comparison

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<a href="$checkoutUrlHttps">My Cart ($cart.getItemCount() Items)</span></a>

 Here we use tags for both tag " $cart.getItemCount()" and " $cart.getSubTotal()" to pull both  to pull the item count and the carts total and display that information to the customer.

If the customer does not have a an item in the cart (or checkout) started then the following is used:

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