Tuesday, April 5, 2011

ONLINE SHOPPING


Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods or services from a seller in real-time, without an intermediary service, over the Internet.In recent years, online shopping has become popular; however, it still caters to the middle and upper class. In order to shop online, one must be able to have access to a computer, a bank account and a debit cards. Shopping has evolved with the growth of technology. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall. Online shopping widened the target audience to men and women of the middle class. At first, the main users of online shopping were young men with a high level of income and a university education.

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