Why bother shopping online if shopping in the store offers the same experience? Of course, you will save time by shopping online because you will not have to leave your house to shop. Plus, you will not have to spend money on gas to drive from one store to the next to compare prices.
How else is online shopping different? It all boils down to one question with many answers. Why should you bother shopping online at all?
When you shop online you give up your limitations. You do not need to plan your day around the time that it takes to drive to a store. And this means any store. You could be shopping at an online store located on a separate continent and it will still take you less time to be perusing their merchandise than it would take you to drive to the corner store. Wherever the deals are, you can go there via the internet and take advantage of them.
Physical stores have limited inventories. They have what is out on display, what they have in the back, and on rare occasions whatever items might be stored in a nearby warehouse. The internet, however, has an almost infinite inventory. Whatever you want to find, there is a good chance that you will be able to find it.
You name it and it is out there somewhere. This bonus applies to rare items as much as common ones. For the rare items, this perk allows you to locate these hard-to-find products and for common items, you can find a single product being sold in many stores. This allows you to go with the lowest price you can find on an item, wherever that lowest price may be.
