the.com/online shopping
the art of buying things you don't need with money you don't see, delivered by people you don't tip enough.
means purchasing goods or services over the internet instead of walking into a store.
from traces to 1979, when englishman michael aldrich hooked a modified tv to a phone line and a transaction computer, letting people order groceries without leaving the couch — he called it teleshopping, decades before amazon made it a personality trait.
first transactiona sting cd sold on nettravel in 1994
cart abandonmentabout 70 percent of carts get left behind
peak chaoscyber monday moves billions in a single day
for instance
amazon prime day — 2023 sales topped 12.9 billion dollars in 48 hours
alibaba singles day — china 2019 haul hit 38 billion dollars in 24 hours
asos returns — uk shoppers return roughly half of clothing bought online