Online shopping can be a fast growing form of e commerce. It involves buying completely from the seller online without the need of a third party - the intermediary service. An eshop, e-store, online shop etc. some of the words utilized to describe sites that sell products.
Even though look what i found has evolved at the very fast pace within the last couple of years, it still has a good way to go. Especially because internet continues to be not available through the entire developing world. Accessing internet is hard in a lot of developing countries - and even where it is, people want to use it for emails and general stuff.
Also, shopping on the web is still viewed with suspicion by a large band of the population. Most of the people want to know exactly what they're buying. They want to hold it in their hands, or feel it or observe big it's (just in case, say, of the teddy bear) if it is really a matter of clothes - people would rather wear and look and the size and find out how it looks - doing this is not possible online. Customers also love to haggle, attempt to make the vendor pull around the rates.
But that doesn't mean all is lost. A growing group pf people prefer shopping on the web to down to earth shopping. Those are often people who are hard pressed for time. It makes a lot more sense for many years to click at the website and order flowers for a forgotten anniversary at the afternoon meal in the office than rush towards the shops after work if it might be past too far. Youngsters too, want to see various options online - plenty of which might 't be available of their city. For example, online book stores are often well-stocked compared to the best of libraries or book stores in the small cities. Such, among others are part of a ever-growing population of people that 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 is also fast striding towards a brighter future.