On Line Shopping Made Easy

There are many advantages to shopping on line, the main ones being the saving of time and money. By shopping on line one can compare prices from many merchants without traveling from store to store. One can easily find out which merchants have the best sales. On line one can also find unbiased reviews, such as consumers’ reports, to determine which products are of best quality.

When selling on line, merchants can avoid the high costs of maintaining retail stores and avoid any loses that might result from shoplifting. It is also easy to automate the processing and shipping of online orders. Thus on line merchants can offer lower prices.

With more than 12 million subscribers, Netflix, Inc. is the world’s largest subscription service streaming movies and TV episodes over the Internet and sending DVDs by mail. For $8.99 a month, Netflix members can instantly watch unlimited TV episodes and movies streamed to their TVs and computers and can receive unlimited DVDs delivered quickly to their homes. With Netflix, there are never any due dates or late fees. Members can select from a growing library of titles that can be watched instantly and a vast array of titles on DVD. Among the large and expanding base of devices that can stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix right to members’ TVs are Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PS3 game consoles and, this spring, Nintendo’s Wii console; Blu-ray disc players from Samsung, LG and Insignia; Internet TVs from LG, Sony and VIZIO; the Roku digital video player and TiVo digital video recorders.