can the online shopping replace the real one?

True, the online shopping may not replace the actual, physical shop-hopping - or rather, the experience of it, however this will pick steam soon - the roadblocks for this, at present are:
1. Unavailability of a reliable and yes, a fast one too, internet connection at every place.
2. Online data and information security.
3. Lack of laws protecting consumer - not just the cyber laws, but others like, consume-protection laws too. Not only the consumer protecting laws are weak, but are also difficult to be used - especially in the light of lack of awareness - and the companies add their own conditions too e.g. think about how a consumer, say from North-east feel when he/she reads that in case of any dispute the matter would come under the jurisdictions of Delhi courts only
4. Lack of reliable, faster courier service providers in all areas of India (especially the rural ones) - thus increasing the delivery-time.
5.Our own culture too comes in the way - we've not reached to that level of honesty/faith etc - even in the business - most of the time we don't consider even our local shopkeeper to be enough honest / reliable - how can somebody 2,000km away could be, especially considering the generally perception of greedy-businessmen!
 
deepakraam said:
Shopping is one of the industries that has utilised internet to the fullest.Online shopping has broken the geographical barriers.Today you can order anything from the yet-to-be-released Harry potter book to the iphones by sitting in homes.Even you can view the product before buying.The comments/feedback about a product can also be viewed.

some glitches:
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1.The online purchase won't give you the joy of doing it in near-by shops by walking in the streets.

2.With online shopping you can't feel the product,though you can see it.

3.You need to have credit card to buy it online.The fear of phishing is always there.


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-Deepak.
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No for now at least but in the distant future it might be since most transactions would be through the internet.
Even then the normal shopping way shall prevail since in order to buy a product such vegetables, fruits, biscuits, etc... one would want to see to check its expiry date or whether the contents are fresh or not.

 
Shopping has been considered a stress buster by many... i dont imagine that the virtual windows shopping can ever replace the real window shopping
 
I think online shopping can be more useful and faster for the people who really not having sufficient time to go in to the market and purchase the products.however,
in india, the online shopping is finding relly tough for itself to enter or we can say penetrate into the established market. the basic thing because of which people are afraid to go for it is their privacy, they are afraid that they might loose their information details, which they give while shopping.for example: trust of the sites, peoples are generally not getting the product which they have requested through online shopping.,misuse of credit cards so on....
 
I think it wont... one reason is the satisfaction you get buying at real shopping! It is like a time sharing moment for a group of people so the online versone can not and never give you that pleasure while shopping..
 
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