Shopping Online for Freedom, Control, and Fun

摘要

The number of consumers buying online and the amount being spent by online buyers has been on the rise; Forrester Research has esti - mated Internet sales in 2000 to be more than double that of 1999, $45 billion. In comparison, overall retail sales in the U. S. totaled $13 tril - lion in 2000. Thus, -commerce sales currently account for only about 2.4/100 of retail sales, and experts and scholars have argued over the possible upper limit to the percentage of consumer online spending.