Home Shopping

•It is already in wide use.

•This enable a customer to do online shopping

Television-Based Shopping:

•It is launched in 1977 by the Home Shopping Network (HSN).

•It provides a variety of goods ranging from collectibles, clothing, small electronics, housewares, jewelry, and computers.

•When HSN started in Florida in 1977, it mainly sold factory overruns and discontinued items

•It works as, the customer uses her remote control at shop different channels with touch of button. At this time, cable shopping channels are not truly interactive

Catalog-Based Shopping

•In this the customer identifies the various catalogs that fit certain parameters such as safety, price, and quality

•The on-line catalog business consists of brochures , CD-ROM catalogs, and on-line interactive catalogs

•Currently, we are using the electronic brochures