Shopping
The meaning of Shopping varies depending on the purpose and mood of people for example most of people do shopping to buy necessities of life like goods and/or services but some people do it just for killing their time or for adventure. For many it’s the process of learning because this is how you can know a lot of important things like on what basis the selection should be made?, how was the last decision?, computing of expenses, comparison of prices and features, what your likes and dislikes?, what you need and what you don’t need?, what you can sacrifice? Shopping is the very social, inspiring and influential. It makes your mind and then changes it.
In this advance era where you have a lot of facilities with responsibilities; here you have to do a lot of things by yourself so, mostly you are out of time and/or short of money. Sometime you have money but its midnight, so, traveling can be dangerous. Online shopping, Internet shopping or Web shopping is the big facility which frees you from a lot of constraints like traveling, time and location because you can visit online shops through internet any time and from any where. Now-a-days there are many shopping sites, shopping malls, and shopping centers available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week from where you can shop online any type of thing like computer hardware and software, mobiles, medicines, jewelry, shoes, and clothes etc. There are a lot of online shops so, you can compare the prices. Shopping site specially shopping malls and shopping centers offer different discount packages or deals time by time which can save money. There are many online discount shops also available. Online shopping removes your traveling cast and helps you find out cheap but reliable things so, it’s best known as discount shopping or cheap shopping.
The best parts of online shopping are Price Comparison Service and Shopping Cart System. Through Price Comparison Service an individual can see different price list of different or specific products. This service is not compulsory part of online shopping site or shopping mall so, it is mostly stand alone. There are many Price Comparison sites also available. Shopping Cart System allows consumer to collect multiple products and accumulate the price and quantity.
For consumer the most concerning part of Online Shopping or Internet Shopping is payment mode which brings an important thing into your mind and that’s security and its measures. There are many payment mode available like credit/debit card, online check, cash on delivery and electronic money etc. The biggest difference between Physical Store and Online Store is that consumer does not know the online store merchandiser so it increases the risk and chances of fraud so, in result it increases consumer concern. The same way because merchandiser does not know the consumer so, there is possibility that consumer can use stolen credit/debit card but due to warehouse the physical theft has been reduced to its maximum so, merchandiser face less risk.
There are some disadvantages of Online Shopping like consumer cannot see the things physically so, he/she may have not a complete idea what he/she is going to purchase. Before purchase some products are required to be smelled like perfume, touched or seen like clothes because color and fabric feel are very important. Mostly basic price of item is shown to consumer and for comparison so, full price of item which may include any fees like shipping fees is not disclosed to consumer.
Amazon and ebay are the good example of online shopping sites.
