Innovations in shopping are nothing new.The growth of department stores at the beginning of the twentieth century answered the needs of the growing number of urban consumers.Previously, generations of Americans in remote communities depended on mail order catalogs for their shopping.The shopping centers of the mid-twentieth century were eventually overshadowed by shopping malls.In the 1990s, new technologies promoted the convenience and ease of home shopping for customers. As a result, Internet sales have grown into a multibillion dollar business.
Technology has made home shopping most similar to what other type of shopping?
- department stores
- store catalogs
- centrally located malls
- specialty stores
- suburban town centers