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We Will Go Shopping Online

What do computer skins, green tea and a solitaire engagement ring have in common? All of these items can be bought without ever leaving your home through internet shopping.

Internet shopping has become such a way of life for many people that we forget how new this way of life really is. Even so, it has not only changed industrialized countries, the internet is finding use in far away places that we may have never thought of before. Third world countries have people that telecommute to make far more money than ever before possible in their homeland.

As the internet has grown, so has internet shopping. Today almost anything can be purchased on line. In 1994, there was a fledgling bookstore that started selling books online. That company was Amazon. It was not the first bookstore to sell books online, but today it is the largest.

In fact, 1994 seems to have been the time that many of the successful online shopping stores that are still available went live. Pizza Hut first started allowing customers to order their pizza online during this time.

E-bay, the popular auction site where you can buy everything from antique candy wrappers to new cars did not start until 1995. Now the site has grown to be the largest auction company in the world and has sister sites around the globe.

Although it grew slower at first, Craigslist also started in 1995 as an e-mailed list of items for sale in the San Francisco bay area. It now serves at least 570 cities in fifty different countries.

If the cupboards are bare, you just need to enter your grocery order online in order to have groceries delivered to your home in most larger cities. You do not even have to go out to pick up the orders as they come right to your front door.

You can even order your replacement computer online. Dell was a small computer company that had been relatively successful, until they started selling computers on their own website in 1996. Now they are a computer giant.

Today, you can buy almost anything you are shopping for online. Groceries to computers are available as are used cars to top soil. Whatever it is that you seek, it only takes the use of a search engine to find it.

Online security continues to grow better each day as retailers use encryption to keep your information secure. Online shopping will continue to grow and may someday outgrow the brick and mortar stores. Someday, they may just be distribution outlets where your orders are processed and then shipped directly to your own home.