Online Shopping is a Fast Growing Form

Online shopping is a fast growing form of e commerce. It involves buying straight from the seller over the web without the need of a 3rd party - the intermediary service. An eshop, e-store, online shop etc. are just some of the words employed to describe the websites that sell products.

Even though online shopping sites has evolved at the very fast pace within the last couple of years, it still has a great distance to go. Especially because internet remains not available through the entire developing world. Accessing internet is difficult in lots of developing countries - and in many cases where it's, people want to use it for emails and general stuff.

Also, shopping on the web is still looked at with suspicion by the large number of the population. Most of the people would like to know exactly what these are buying. They want to hold it of their hands, or feel it or find out how big it's (in case, say, of an teddy bear) and when it is often a matter of clothes - people prefer to wear and appearance and the size and observe it looks - all of this is not possible online. Customers like to haggle, try to make the vendor pull on the rates.

But that does not mean all is lost. A growing group pf people prefer shopping online to real world shopping. Those are often people who are pushed for time. It makes a lot more sense for them to click in a website and order flowers to get a forgotten anniversary at lunch time in the office than rush towards the shops after work when it might be too late. Youngsters too, want to see various options online - a great deal of which might not available inside their city. For example, online book stores usually are well-stocked compared to best of libraries or book shops in the small cities. Such, and others are part of the ever-growing population of people which spend more time clicking away online then bag-hauling offline. Of course, people still won't buy groceries online, but shopping on the web has learnt to outpace its baby steps and it is fast striding towards a brighter future.

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Pub: 22 Dec 2025 14:54 UTC

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