The advent of wireless technology along with other communication techniques has helped in making electronic commerce very popular. A modern forward looking product is the one that aids comfort, convenience and efficiency everyday life. In this paper, we discuss an innovative concept Shopping. key idea here to assist a person shopping terms reduced time spent while purchasing product. main goal ...

Electronic commerce recently has become a heavily discussed possibility to use the Internet. In particular tele-shopping is seen as one of the most interesting features of networks. Since the treatment of all relevant topics concerning tele-shopping (namely who, when, why, what and how) would go far beyond the scope of the paper , the focus of this article will be on the WHO. This question is i...

Trust is particularly important in online markets to facilitate the transfer of sensitive consumer information to online retailers. In electronic markets, various proposals have been made to facilitate these information transfers. We develop analytic models of hidden information to analyze the effectiveness of these regimes to build trust and their efficiency in terms of social welfare. We find...

IntroductIon Firms and organizations are increasingly exploiting electronic channels to reach their customers and create new business opportunities. To this end, electronic shops have been developed, either offering products from a single firm or encompassing multiple individual electronic stores, comprising thus electronic shopping malls. Besides development activities, electronic shopping has...

We develop an individual-level integrated Bayesian model for store shopping trips to capture the relationship between a consumer’s shopping path through the store and her purchasing behavior. Using dynamic latent “attractions” of different zones and product categories in the store as fundamental constructs, our model jointly captures three key aspects of a consumer’s within-store behavior: whic...

The special nature of groceries, especially perishables, challenges the possibilities of digital channels i.e. computers and networks to improve customer service. We report the findings of theme interviews on the potential of electronic commerce (EC) of groceries with 33 experts of grocery industry and EC, most of them senior executives, in 23 organisations in Finland during the Autumn of 1997....

As increasing number of consumers take their business on-line, retailers try to gain competitive advantage through innovative design of their electronic storefronts. In the last few years, more and more three dimensional online stores (3D) have become an alternative to the more traditional two dimensional ones (2D). The goal of this study is to examine the influence of shopping website design (...

This study extends a stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) model to include impulse-buying behavior, which plays a vital role in electronic shopping but has not gained much attention in e-commerce research. Grounding our research in environmental psychology, we test the effects of virtual atmospheric cues on online impulse-buying behavior and spending, via a consumer survey. The study applies elab...

With the commercialization of the Internet Electronic Shopping Malls turned up in large numbers. Their initial purpose was to provide the necessary infrastructure for their suppliers to open an online shop to sell their goods, and for their customers to facilitate the tracing of goods and services. But recent shutdowns of big Malls and press releases about unsatisfactory results in turnover let...