What is Home shopping

Thanks to modern technology, such as television and telephone and Internet users can be described as home shopping online, through retail outlets. E-commerce and business-to-consumer e-commerce systems in combination of home mail delivery systems, that it was possible. Typically a consumer could make purchases though online shopping, shopping channels, mail order, etc. Sometimes peddlers and ice cream trucks pass through the neighborhoods offering services and goods.

The neighborhood shopping takes place when the various garage sales found in the United States. Online shopping has completely redefined the way people make their buying decisions, which have access to many information about a specific product which can be seen and evaluated at the time. Online shopping will allow the buyer to save time that would have been spent on the road to the store or shopping center.

About The shopper

For many, shopping is a recreational activity where a visiting several stores in search of a suitable product to purchase. "Window shopping" is an activity which customers engage in, visit the shops, without intent to purchase, possibly just putting the time between other activities or to plan a later purchase.

To some, shopping is a task of inconvenience and vexation. Shoppers sometimes goes to great lengths to wait in long queues to buy popular products as typically observed with early customers, and holiday shopping.

Recently compulsive shopping has been recognized as an addiction. Also known as shopping addiction, "shopaholism" or formally oniomania these customers have an impulsive uncontrollable urge to go shopping. The term "retail therapy" is used in a less serious context.