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Online shopping is hailed for being convenient and time-saving. Yet, do the benefits outweigh potentially nonenvironmental-friendly side effects? Take product packaging,

Lessons for online retailers: buyers expect a seamless shopping experience across online and offline channels, suggest two recent studies of consumers

This time of year it's hard not to appreciate anything that keeps you out of the cold, including online shopping.

Online grocery shopping research revealed by Computing Which?

Research on levels of service offered by online grocery shopping websites has been revealed by 'Computing Which?'.

Seal the deal: easy solutions to keep your online customers from ditching their shopping carts during checkout

DESPITE WIDESPREAD KNOWLEDGE of the problem, shopping cart abandonment continues to plague e-tailers. In fact, 52 percent of shopping carts were abandoned last year,

The Right Ingredients - online grocery shopping may revive

Just when everyone thought online grocery shopping was as dead as...well, Webvan, a number of businesses are quietly making a go of it.

Safe Shopping

Almost everywhere we shop-from the toy store at the mall to an online linen warehouse-we are asked to provide personal information. Some stores ask for a zip code or phone number at the checkout. Online sites may demand more,

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Do you love the convenience of online shopping but worry about who might be grabbing your credit card information? The truth is, using your credit card anywhere puts you at risk. Anyone who handles your credit information is a potential thief. But the Internet somehow instills greater fear. As we'll see,

Do you derive pleasure from pressing innumerable buttons on your touch-tone keypad just to get an answer to a simple question? How about logging on to a Web site and clicking aimlessly around, deluged with pop-up ads, to learn more about your long-distance account? Do you get a real kick out of being a target of cross-promotion?

Shopping Online Safely, There can be real advantages to shopping online: Prices are sometimes cheaper and product selection greater; it's often easier to find information about a particular product; parking isn't an issue; and the Internet is open 24 hours a day. But online shopping also has inherent risks and disadvantages,