What Is Online Grocery Shopping?
Online grocery shopping is a way of buying food and other household necessities using a web-based shopping service. There are two basic methods that people can use to purchase these items online. One is to order them from a local grocery store that participates in online shopping. A customer can then arrange for a home delivery directly from the store, or he can pick up his order at the store once an employee has assembled it. Another common practice is to order groceries from a large company, such as Amazon or Netgrocer, that will ship the items to one’s home. Ordering groceries online became popular in the 1990s, in the United States, during what has been called the dot-com boom. The popularity was short-lived, however, and several online shopping services faced bankruptcy. Over the next few years, some of them survived economic hardship to remain strong in the market, and today there are numerous online grocery retailers. Many market experts currently feel that online grocery shoppi
