e-shopping

"E-shopping" is not an attractive vision to most of the world nor to many in the United States.

The conventional explanation for the rapid growth of e-shopping is that the Web offers convenience, low prices and speed.

Early spot reports indicated that e-shopping is fast becoming as much a holiday tradition as strolling the concourse.

Hong Kong Airport: Better Than Disneyland E-shopping.

In fact, in a 2001 article titled "Consumer Watch", the popular online site PC World went as far as calling secure e-shopping a myth.

Amazon, one of the leaders in electronic retailing, has stepped up its antiunion activities the last week after two unions and an independent organizing group announced plans to speed efforts to unionize Amazon during the holiday e-shopping rush.

There is nothing to stop one of these new megaliths from exerting a larger and more surreptitious chokehold on all the electronic services that their cable wires will speed by the bundle into our homes tomorrow, from chat rooms to e-shopping to movies.

The report, which is available free on the site, focuses on the privacy policies, usability and product information of about 260 online merchants, and concludes that the state of e-shopping is significantly better than it was in late 1999, when new e-tailers were starting up daily.

E-shopping may be easy, but a new form of charity on the Net is absolutely painless: one click on the Hunger Site, and the United Nations World Food Program gets three cups of rice, corn, maize or other staples - at no charge to the donor.

This case has become a highly relevant precedent in the modern context of e-shopping on the internet, when online retailers sometimes get the published price wrong and receive hundreds of online orders (automatically accepted) before they discover their error - e.g. advertising a £299 television on the website for £2.99.