Online Shopping vs. Traditional Shopping
...mple of a shopping specific Website would be www.shopping.com. Some major websites with search engines would be Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Alta Vista. One can use any of the websites mentioned above to just type in what you’re looking for and click on the search button; the search engine will give a list of websites that relate to the item that was searched for. Traditional shopping limits the shopper to stores that are within traveling distance. While there are many varieties of stores near big cities, one wouldn’t have as large a choice as one would with the Internet. Just last week I was looking for some new shoes and had to drag myself out to the mall to try and find the shoe I like. Unfortunately my computer had just crashed and I couldn’t use the Internet. I was stuck in traffic for thirty minutes before I had even begun to shop. The parking lot was almost completely full and it was raining outside, so I had to walk about one hundred and fifty yards in the rain to get to the mall. When I had finally reached the mall I found myself having to walk around the thousands of people who can’t seem to get their bodies moving more that a half a mile per hour. Next was the search for the shoes. There were plenty of shoe stores, but most of them where geared towards the fifteen to eighteen year old shopper. The mall’s prices where outrageously high. I couldn’t believe people could actually make money from others with these prices. By the time I found the pair of shoes that were close to the style that I wanted and prepared myself for the hard hit on my wallet, I noticed the line that I had to stand in just to pay for the shoes. I must have been in line for close to twenty minutes; the world’s slowest modem could have had me checked out in less ...