Online shopping can be a fast growing way of e commerce. It involves buying straight from the seller online without the need of an authorized – the intermediary service. An eshop, e-store, online store etc. are just some of the words used to describe web sites that sell products.

Even though shopping sites has evolved with a very fast pace during the last couple of years, nevertheless has a long distance to go. Especially because internet is still not available during the entire developing world. Accessing internet is not easy in plenty of developing countries – and in many cases where it really is, people choose to use it for emails and general stuff.

Also, shopping online is still looked upon with suspicion by the large gang of the population. Most of the people want to know exactly what these are buying. They want to hold it within their hands, or feel it or see how big it really is (in the event that, say, of the teddy bear) if it is really a matter of clothes – people would rather wear and look and the size and see how it looks – this is not possible online. Customers also like to haggle, try and make the vendor pull along the rates.

But i am not saying all is lost. A growing group pf people prefer shopping on the web to real life shopping. Those are often people who are pushed for time. It makes a lot more sense in their mind to click at the website and order flowers for a forgotten anniversary at lunch time in the office than rush on the shops after work when it might be past too far. Youngsters too, enjoy travelling to various options online – lots of which might not be available within their city. For example, online book stores are usually well-stocked compared to the best of libraries or book stores in the small cities. Such, among others are part of a ever-growing population of people which 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 and it is fast striding towards a brighter future.