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Online Shopping

Online shopping is a basically a form of retail over the internet. Customers can browse products on a business’s website, add products to a virtual shopping cart, and then securely transfer money from their bank account to the retailer. It is a popular service which has grown rapidly in recent years due to the expansion of the internet, and it provides customers with a great amount of choices between products, offering many different colour choices as well as lots of different sizes that may not be available/in stock in the high street outlets and a variety of different retailers. This can be a useful service for those who may not have time in their busy schedules to go shopping, as it allows these people to order required products, and have them brought straight to their doorstep. Online shopping features real-time information, for example to check whether or not an item is in stock, which is such information that is live from the retailer, so stocks can be tracked in this way, as the consumer knows how much of the item is available for purchase.
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