Online Shopping
                     Online Shopping
Prepared By: 
Sita Sapkota
Definition
• Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows 
consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the 
Internet using a web browser or a mobile app.
• Michael Aldrich, an English innovator, inventor, and entrepreneur, in 
1979, invented online shopping. He introduced online shopping to 
enable online transaction processing between consumers and 
business, a technique which is now known as electronic commerce (e-
commerce).
Advantages of Online Shopping
Advantages of online shopping
• 1. Convenience of online shopping
• Top 6 reasons given by shoppers in buying through internet
• 2. No pressure shopping
• 3. Online shopping saves time
• 4. Comparisons
• 5. Availability of online shop
• 6. Online tracking
• 7. Online shopping saves money
Disadvantages of Online Shopping
• 1. Delay in delivery
• 2. Lack of significant discounts in online shops
• 3. Lack of touch and feel of merchandise in online shopping
• 4. Lack of interactivity in online shopping
• 5. Lack of shopping experience
• 6. Lack of close examination in online shopping
• 7. Frauds in online shopping
Importance of Online Shopping
• Online shopping allows customers buy goods and services from sellers 
over the internet. Due to growth in technology, many companies have 
shifted from offline sales to online sales. Since the past few years, 
many people in India have started shopping online because of the 
ease and convenience it offers.
• Online shopping is time saving, reliable and instant method of online 
shopping gaining highly popularity in the busy world.



References
• https://iamcheated.indianmoney.com/blogs/advantages-of-online-sh
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• https://www.socheko.com
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