Online shopping is a fast growing kind of e commerce. It involves buying straight from the seller over the internet without the need of an authorized - the intermediary service. An eshop, e-store, online shop etc. some of the words utilized to describe sites that sell products.
Even though online sale has evolved with a very fast pace during the last couple of years, still it has a great distance to go. Especially because internet remains to be not available throughout the developing world. Accessing internet is difficult in a great deal of developing countries - and also where it can be, people prefer to use it for emails and general stuff.
Also, shopping online is still looked upon with suspicion by a large group of the population. Most of the people need to know exactly what these are buying. They want to hold it in their hands, or feel it or find out how big it's (in case, say, of an teddy bear) if it can be a matter of clothes - people would rather wear and appearance and the size and find out how it looks - this is not possible online. Customers like to haggle, make an effort to make the vendor pull on the rates.
But that does not mean all is lost. A growing group pf people prefer shopping online to real world shopping. Those are generally people who are challenged for time. It makes a lot more sense to them to click with a website and order flowers for any forgotten anniversary at lunch time in the office than rush on the shops after work if this might be too far gone. Youngsters too, enjoy visiting various options online - lots of which might not available inside their city. For example, online book stores are generally well-stocked than the best of libraries or booksellers in the small cities. Such, among others are part of the ever-growing population of people who spend more time clicking away online then bag-hauling offline. Of course, people still won't buy groceries online, but online shopping has learnt to outpace its baby steps which is fast striding towards a brighter future.