Only browse the Internet and do online shopping during lunch or other breaks.
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In all three cases the growth of internet traffic and online shopping affected the structure of the industry, not just prices.
With the Chinese middle class growing sizably and relocating to urban centers, McKinsey sees Internet users spending more time shopping online.
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He has built a vast, but shaky, empire on cut-rate services--in airlines, Internet service, car rentals, online shopping, credit cards, music downloads, a movie theater, bus service and on and on.
Internet entrepreneur runs Japan's leading online shopping mall Rakuten.
China's Internet is sprouting travel sites and numerous bookstores, Hong Kong's two major grocery chains offer Internet shopping, Singapore and Thailand sport online department stores.
In the early days of Internet retail, some consumers had their first online-shopping experiences during the holidays, leading them to keep returning to a particular site in later months.
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Not surprisingly, China leads the way, thanks to a growing Internet-connected middle class, more trust in online shopping, government campaigns to promote consumerism, improved infrastructure, and better product selection and services offered by online sellers and retailers, says eMarketer.
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Online-sales tracker IBM Benchmark put the internet shopping rise even higher - up nearly 27% compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year.
Online shopping is still relatively new in terms of internet years, so I understand if tax law needs to evolve with it.
The convenience of online shopping and the ability to make price comparisons on the Internet has completely changed retail trends in the past decade.
In the end, Amazon's greatest contribution to Internet commerce may be that it has alerted consumers to some of the pleasures of online shopping.
Mr Jones told MPs that internet shopping had made a "dramatic impact" on the industry, with online sales accounting for 12.2% of all retail sales.
And with growing popularity of online shopping in the country, China has become a key market for e-commerce with internet firms.
In October, Excite, which is evolving from the second-largest Internet search site to a fully fledged online service, bought NetBot in order to acquire the firm's shopping-agent technology, with which it hopes to create a virtual megastore.
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"Our new fourth generation high-speed satellite Internet service is an industry game changer, allowing customers to do more of what they love online, from shopping and social networking to movies and music, " said Mike Cook, senior vice president, North American Division at Hughes.
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Today, the shopping behavior of many of the 530 million Chinese internet users is changing gradually, but clearly towards online markets.
But let's say the Internet sales-tax bill becomes law, and Senator Cruz is sitting at home in Houston, doing some online shopping.
With the rapid development of the Chinese Internet industry, users spend more time and conduct more activities online, such as downloading applications, playing games, online shopping, etc.
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