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Welcome to the Amazon USA Online Discount Stores. You will find many discounts and specials, and be assured of safe and secure online shopping transactions, as our fulfillment of orders is handled by Amazon USA. Amazon is recognized as one of the most favored and trusted suppliers for online shopping. They guarantee safe and secure credit card transactions. Read the honest consumer reviews before you buy. Free shipping offers. This page is updated hourly with the top sellers. This website earns a commission from online advertising. The advertising model used is called affiliate marketing and enables websites to earn money for promoting products or services. Amazon USA Affiliate
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Home and Garden Store

 

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History of online shopping

One of the earliest forms of trade conducted online was IBM's online transaction processing (OLTP) developed in the 1960s and it allowed the processing of financial transactions in real-time. The computerized ticket reservation system developed for American Airlines called Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment (SABRE) was one of its applications. Here, computer terminals located in different travel agencies were linked to a large IBM mainframe computer, which processed transactions simultaneously and coordinated them so that all travel agents had access to the same information at the same time.

The emergence of online shopping as we know today developed with the emergence of the Internet. Initially, this platform only functioned as an advertising tool for companies, providing information about its products. It quickly moved on from this simple utility to actual online shopping transaction due to the development of interactive Web pages and secure transmissions. Specifically, the growth of the internet as a secure shopping channel has developed since 1994, with the first sales of Sting album 'Ten Summoner's Tales'

Wine, chocolates, and flowers soon followed and were among the pioneering retail categories which fueled the growth of online shopping. Researchers found that having products that are appropriate for e-commerce was a key indicator of Internet success  Many of these products did well as they are generic products which shoppers did not need to touch and feel in order to buy. But also importantly, in the early days, there were few shoppers online and they were from a narrow segment: affluent, male, 30+. Online shopping has come along way since these early days and accounts for significant percents (depending on product category as percentages can vary).

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