Factors Influencing Online Shopping Behavior

Online shopping has emerged in India as a new trend of shopping now a days and is quickly absorbed in our routine life . Due to wide spread internet access by shoppers and e - commerce widely usage by traders, online shopping is rapidly growing in recent years. Students have been the majority online shoppers so this study finds out the attitude of students towards online shopping. This paper attempted to find out the impact of factors like easy payment, wide variety of products, educational qualification on online shopping . The study was undertaken among the students of Ludhiana. The results of the study is that educational qualification of the respondents and factors influencing online shopping are independent.

Consumers are making purchases daily. There are a number of occasions and reasons prompting people to shop. Special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays all contribute to retail sales. Sustaining one’s daily life through purchase of food, clothing, personal hygiene products and cleaning products also contributes to the economy through commerce. How do most people like to shop? In recent years a new alternative to the traditional brick-and-mortar shopping, online shopping, has increased in popularity. “U.S. e-commerce sales grew from 72 billion U.S. dollars in 2002 to 228 billion U.S. dollars in 2010.” (“Online shopping,” n.d.,

Online purchasing is becoming more and more practical thing for contemporary customer. It is explained by high internet penetration in every country, lower cost than in retail network, door to door delivery. Internet plays an important role nowadays; therefore it creates a new market, which sometimes is quite difficult to measure. Online shopping is different from the B&M shopping due to the fact that there is no physical presence of goods, from other standpoint internet is able to sell way more services and motivation and decision making process directly connected to the feedbacks.

There are two ways to shopping in our modern life : online shopping and traditional shopping . Online shopping allows people to directly purchase clothes , books , apparatus or any goods from an online store over the internet . It is a new technology that has been created along with the development of the Internet . The online shopping services have become common because of the ease of access to the internet and often each person possess a computer and buys something on the internet at least once through online shopping . It is a convenient way of shopping and allows for a vast variety of products to be at your hand but the number of scams and disadvantages in online is also increasing with it .

As the fast growth of technology, people prefer online shopping more than shopping in the physical store. A lot of surveys show us there’s a great increase in online shopping. For people to choose to shop online, pros should be more valuable than cons in their beliefs.

Online shopping is a modern concept which has grown in popularity with the rapid global growth in e-commerce. Apparently, many customers are attracted to this new concept of shopping because of the various benefits and offers of the internet. Online shoppers can enjoy the opportunity to shop at any time whenever convenient using an electronic device without the pressure of going to the traditional brick-and-mortar stores. It also allows browsing through seemingly never-ending options for merchandise or products not available in local stores and can let customers evaluate the different online stores to make comparison between items and products, their brands and prices which is difficult and time-consuming

The idea behind this study is of great significance because e-commerce (online shopping) has grown tremendously since the turn of the century. It has shaped the way people do shopping for the most part.

An investigation of online shopping and how does it influence NTIC students’ daily life. Observations have shown that there has been a rapid development in an economic world. We have witnessed a tremendous change about shopping online. According to UCLA Center for Communication Policy (2001), online shopping has been regarded as the third most prevalent activity on the Internet, only followed by e-mail and website usage. It plays an important role, not only in retail stores, but also in people’s lives. There are more and more people who have begun to choose this way of shopping. However, a reasonable way to use Internet for shopping could offer convenience in people’s daily life. Relying on online shopping too much may cause a lot of risks more than the retail sector, for instance, if a student buys a defective dress from an online company, and it turns out to be fraud, it is nearly impossible to trace it and get your money back, whereas it does not happen in the case of a local shop. Also there is a chance of finding bargains in local retail sector. In this research, the influence of online shopping for the International students in NTIC will be studied.

Internet usage has skyrocketed in the past few decades, along with this increase comes the increase in internet shopping by consumers. This research examines the behaviors, motivations, and attitudes of this new form of consumer entity. Online consumer behavior has been studied for over 20 years and will undoubtedly be the source of many future researches as internet consumerism expands. This paper will examine the following research questions: (1) How do factors previously researched affect the online purchasing behavior of consumers and (2) what are the significant consumer behaviors both

The traditional retail market has been transformed by technological advances. The internet today has allowed consumers to purchase various products from home ranging from apparel to groceries. The online shopping market has grown significantly within the past decade, leading to many online e-commerce startups such as Amazon, eBay, and mobile start-ups such as Instacart. While e-commerce provides convenience for shopping, it has created major disruption to the traditional shopping industries. Traditional retailers have since faced bankruptcy due to their inability to compete with such start-ups. The traditional American toy store, Toys R Us, announced its state of bankruptcy just last month due to a significant decline in sales. More and more consumers are turning to online giants such as Amazon to purchase daily items as a result of convenience. According to the Washington Post, Toys R Us is just one of more than 300 retailers to file for bankruptcy this year, as Americans ditch the shopping mall in favor of their laptops, smartphones, and tablets (Bhattarai, 2017). Shopping which used to require walking or a vehicle trip to stores is no longer required for consumers with online shopping. Online shopping has appealed to consumers worldwide by encompassing the business aspect of service convenience which constitute saving time and/or effort (Jiang, Yang, and Jun, 2012). For consumers whom have busy lives and those whom are physically disabled, online shopping is a positive

Just a few years ago most of us preferred shopping by visiting the local stores or nearby market. They would shop in the stores complete with parking and weather problems, long lines, and wobbly shopping carts. With the limited options for shopping , they had no other choice but to visit the shopping store even they had to buy only one product. To avoid the inconvenience and wastage of time, Online shopping was introduced in Indonesia where anyone can shop for his/her favourite product by sitting at home. Although, online shopping was introduced, people still felt uncomfortable using their credit cards and giving their personal information to cyber-shops but with the time this has been changed. Due to easy payment options, good quality

The way of shopping is changed with the advancement of the technology. According to a study ‘if any e-commerce company focuses on the demographic characteristics of the shopper, it is concluded that the higher the level of income, occupation and education of the head of the family then the perception towards online shopping is more favourable. If consumer is inclined towards technology, then his attitude towards online or non-store shopping is increased. Online shopping has widened the segmentation and target audience. Earlier the young educated men were the main users of online shopping but this perception is changing with time. For example, in United States of America the women user internet was very few but till 2001 the population of women were increased and it was around 52% of the online

Due to the fast development of the Internet and the growing popularity of online shopping, some argue that the online shopping will substitute store shopping ultimately. For some products such as books and tickets, that might be true, however, for product like apparel - a kind of high-risk and hedonistic product, it is not the case. This essay demonstrates why it is less possible for online apparel shopping to substitute store apparel shopping and how it serves as a complement for store apparel shopping. Finally, some implications on how to make the online apparel shopping more appealing are given.

It is a new time in history of shopping. The days of having to leave the house and spend hours going to multiple stores are coming to an end. Over the last few years, People prefer to buy online rather than in stores. People can go online and buy anything and have them deliver to their house. People do not need to leave there house for anything anymore. Online shopping is changing the world at a fast rate. In America shopping malls are slowly dying due to the recent popularity of online shopping. Everything is just one click away so the need to get up and go to the mall and hope they have what you are looking for is over. The decrease of shopping mall customers in the United States is caused by online shopping and a changing consumer base.

There are more categories of products on the internet. And there are a lot of choices that people can choose, so they can buy what they want. The choice of a store is very much influenced by location and store types (Sinha, p.14). But brick and mortar stores have fewer kinds of products than online, and online shopping does not be influenced by location. Also, people do not need to be afraid to go buy some private things, if they want to buy in public store, such as, sanitary towel, underwear and so on. Because they can buy it on the internet and even it has more choices. Moreover, if customers want to buy a lot of things, and those things are not in the same place, then they need to run around here and there to buy all kinds of products they want. However, online shopping does not have this problem. People do not need to go out on a sunny or rainy day, just stay at home and pay it on the phone or computer. But the mall can provide some services for customers that are not available online, such as urgent care medical centers and roller coasters (Resnick, pp.1127-1128). Even then, online shopping is still better than traditional shopping. Furthermore, people can compare merchandise from different shops, so they can choose the cheapest and the best. Customers can try on new forms of apparel in stores, but it is too risky to purchase it based on pictures and text description in the internet (Resnick,