Online Shopping Is Important Parts Of Many People

Since the internet came out and developed, online shopping has become important parts of many people. With the rapid development of the Internet in the world, more and more people began to start online shopping due to its convenience, time-saving and benefits. For the definition, Online shopping is an act of purchasing items or services on the Internet and has grown in popularity over years. Narrowly speaking, it can be understood as searching online information and having online deals. But broadly speaking, if one section of shopping is finished online, it will be regarded as online shopping. What you need to learn is just to click your mouse and to wait instead of going out by foot or driving. According to a recent survey, people in†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Last year two of Alibaba’s portals together handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales, more than eBay and Amazon combined. Alibaba is on track to become the world’s first e-commerce firm to han dle $1 trillion a year in transactions.†( The Economist Newspaper) Specially, â€Å"$9.3 billion worth of orders were placed during the 24-hour â€Å"Singles Day† online shopping festival hosted by Alibaba on Tuesday.† (Shao) Why are people prefer shopping online to shopping in-store? Some reasons which need to prove will be offered in this essay. Online shopping is better than in-store one and will have more customers in the future because it has not only more choices and styles , less time and cost for customers, but also more benefits to the firms. The reason why online shopping is better among the customers is that people can find so many items in a single website or shop, or find a kind of item in different online stores. If someone search what he wants, he just needs to type the key words, hundreds, even thousands of items will come out in the records. A large amount of dynamic information will support for customers’s decision-making to make a compar ison with the quality, style or sales volume of an item. Today Amazon sells over 200 million products in the USA, which are categorized into 35 departments. There are almost 5 million items in the Clothing department, almost 20 million in Sports Outdoors, and over 4 million