Statistics don’t lie, on-line shopping is booming, and by the year 2012 some experts predict it will be a 61 billion dollar business. So what are the reasons for this?
Convenience is one, you can sit in the comfort of your home or office and just buy stuff. It doesn’t matter what you are wearing, or how you look. No long lines with rude sweaty people all fighting to get in the shortest line. The line in your house is as long as the number of people waiting to use the computer, and you can usually control that.
I for one am sick of playing the guessing game of which line will move the fastest. I always get stuck with “new cashier” who has to look up every price, or annoying customer who when asked “Did you find everything you need” says no, so someone goes to get stuff they didn’t get while the rest of us wait. How about the person who realizes they actually need money when they finally get to the front of the line and they wait til then to start looking for it. What were they doing the last 10 minutes while they were waiting? I’ve had a strange throwback phenomena happening to me lately, people writing checks. Grab another magazine while you wait for this transaction to take place, three pieces of ID and a blood test later that transaction gets completed.
The beauty of buying on-line is getting to avoid all of the above. Sure nothing’s perfect, slow internet speed can be a pain, or you hit the “buy now” button after entering all your info and nothing happens, but those problems are much easier to deal with than actual people.
When I add up all the pros and cons, the pros win this one, staying home and shopping means the only screaming kids I have to deal with are mine, the lady with enough perfume sprayed on to fill a bathtub won’t make my head ache, nobody will be smoking around me, nobody arguing about mismarked prices, rude sales people, bad parking spots, or no parking spots. And best of all, when my credit card gets declined, nobody standing in front of me with a pair of scissors cutting my card in two. I feel like Dorothy clicking my heels together, when it comes to shopping, “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
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George Siegal and Luis Ramirez are the creators of watchnbuy.com. You can contact George at
george@watchnbuy.com or Luis at
Luis@watchnbuy.com.