The Social Impact of IT
Online Shopping, Retail & Grocery.
Simon Alexander Tolhurst-Simms |
Shopping on the internet has become very popular in recent years, securing a large share of the retail industry. Since the release of webstores such as eBay, Amazon & iTunes, there has been a huge decline in the highstreet retail industry. Online shopping at present is causing ever increasing damage to the music retail industry, the electronics industry and various other highstreet retail industries apart from clothing and grocery.
Online Grocery Shopping
Even though it has not caused significant damage to their retail stores, online shopping has proven to be a very popular industry for supermarket & grocery chains such as Tesco & Waitrose. Grocery shopping on the web has also brought independence to the disabled who are unable to visit stores. When ordering online, groceries are delivered to ones home at a specified date and time. This perk also helps the disabled in other parts of the online retail industry; however, delivery from other non-grocery retail stores cannot be delivered on the day of purchase as they are usually delivered through the postal system.
Shoppers spent a record £7.66bn online in the ten weeks running up to Christmas in 2007 – a rise of 54% on the same period in 2005.
