Tag: online shopping

People now have another way to buy groceries in the comfort of their own home in some parts of California, thanks to Amazon’s online grocery service AmazonFresh.

Up until last month, Californians were not charged state tax by such popular online stores as Amazon, but as of Sept. 15, that changed along with some people’s shopping habits.

Over the years, many individuals have taken advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. Shoppers log on to purchase rare or nostalgic gems, to secure brand names and a multitude of must-haves at bargain prices or to merely avoid retail outlets and department stores.

Planes, trains and automobiles. No, this is not a John Candy/Steve Martin movie. These are just a few of the items in the 18,000 categories one can find on eBay, the Internet's most successful shopping site.

For generations the campus bookstore has been the best and only way to purchase textbooks, but that has changed drastically this fall as a number of Web sites VarsityBooks.com, efollett.com, BigWords.com, ecampus.com and Textbooks.com, to name a few, have sprung to initiate an Internet book war and make buying college textbooks as easy as clicking a mouse.