Online or Traditional Shopping Method?

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.,

Buyers will use both ways of shopping to their desired advantage. The benefits of both shopping online and in the stores are

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.

Online shopping and in- store shopping are different in various ways. Online shopping has become an increasingly common staple of life in the 21st century. It is popularity can be credited to the fact that convenience highly valued in our world today. Online shopping is most convenient for individuals that don’t have time to go to the store. If you’re busy with an online job or online classes then online shopping can sometimes be more convenient. It’s also convenient since you don’t have to drive, catch the bus, wait in a long line, or deal with not being able to find item. All you have to do is type in the item you are looking for and it’s there. Once you find the item, you can order it anytime because online stores never close.

Times are changing faster than ever. It seems like only yesterday that mail order catalogs, grocery stores, and shopping malls were the places to shop for items for our homes and our lives. As with all things, technology advances us to places we would have scoffed at in times past, and as technology advances, so do our shopping trends. Today, the high-energy bustle of the malls of America is dwindling down to lonely, dilapidated store fronts with “space for rent” signs becoming more numerous as the surviving stores that reach out and gasp for air. What is responsible for the shrinking of brick and mortar retailers? It is the rise of online shopping trends. Of course, online shopping is not exactly

This paper appears in the publication, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Volume 11, Issue 2 edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour © 2009, IGI Global

Brick and mortar shopping and online shopping compare and contrast in many different ways. Some of the ways are obvious such as one is online and one is an actual store, but there are others that many different people would not even think about if they didn’t shop in both settings regularly. Knowing the benefits of online shopping and shopping in store can not only save a person the hassle of getting out when something may be better to get online, but it can also save a person tons of money knowing which setting to buy certain things from. For instance, during certain times of the year store may offer exclusive savings on certain products if you buy them online and buy them together. This kind of promotion can save you massive amounts of

In the era of rapid development of information technology, online shopping into people's life, especially young people. Online shopping is a blow to the store, so people would compare the advantages and the disadvantages between shopping for goods online and buying goods in store. I think they have their own advantages and disadvantages, and online shopping and shopping in store are both important.

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 respondents indicated that they experience the shopping process at an eliminated OSE store as convenient and easy. This convenience and easiness has been gained though the layout of the shop principle. The customers have via several online tools, which are as short as possible, like for example the price range tool and the style selection via photos, the possibility to experience their shopping process in an apathetic friendly way. The respondents indicated that they do also favor the anonymity that is paired with the possibility of personality, via a fashion

Nowadays, internet is so popular, worldwide and updated. Many things changed by time and some people seems to be very on time but it is undying, there is also some people who stay on the same spot. It is online shopping versus shopping at the mart. Both of it has their own advantage and disadvantage. Online shopping and shopping at the mart are very different on how costumer access them while buying their goods. By the way, when talking about them, both are about selling and buying a thing and making a business. Now, let’s talk about shopping at mart and online shopping with more scientific to exactly understand about what is them?

According to an article by Kuan-Pin Chiang and Ruby Roy Dholakia, study revealed that convenience influences people’s intention to online shop (Chiang and Dholakia p181). In addition, the study showed that the type of product influences people to shop online. It showed that search products such as books are more likely to be bought online rather than experience products like perfume because of search coats are reduced (Chiang and Dholakia p.182)

There are a lot of websites on internet whereby it offer a variety of product and services for consumer can find and buy through online such as shoe, apparel, sun glasses and more Moreover, the online also provides some of the services which is paying bill online, booking a transport ticket and more. In this research, we are looking the problem addressed in this research which is the view of online shopping by consumer.

Online shopping is considered to be more time saving (Khalifaand Limayem, 2003) (Gurvinder and Chen, 2004). Therefore, online shopping has become an important consideration for consumers as they tend to want to get their items quickly without bargaining on price or quality plus consumers can order a variety of products via the Internet (Yomnak,

With an increasingly consumerist society, the crowds and queues at the markets and stores using the conventional shopping processes, are inevitable, our aim is to change that by making the shopping at a store and maintaining a warehouse easy through Near Field Communication. The system that we are going to implement cuts down the costs of maintaining a product serial number based database and most importantly saves time in the checkout process and hence an expanding customer base for the store that it is implemented in. We intend to make the system as intuitive as possible so that it can be easily used by people who are not very technologically aware. We have also decided to add a recommendation engine to our app that will