British shoppers
spent [pound]150m on the internet last Monday, as high street stores admitted
their sales were down. Are we all online shoppers now?
Rob Harris, 25
CHEMIST
Car insurance.
It's easier to compare prices on the internet. There can be unforeseen hazards.
A friend once bought a flight to Italy when he was drunk. He didn't go.
Sunny Jewon, 40
FLYER DISTRIBUTOR
I haven't ever
bought anything from the internet. It's too expensive to get a connection in my
room here in England, and I can't really afford to go out and use it in
internet cafes either.
Alan Brown
RETIRED COMPUTER
CONSULTANT
Tickets to see
Cabaret, although usually I prefer real shops because I don't know what I want
until I see it. Once or twice I've had Tesco deliver the shopping right into my
hall, which was rather super.
David Mallinson,
mid-50s
ACTOR
I'm an
old-fashioned photographer so I buy paper and solutions online now that
everybody else has gone digital. There's definitely something to be said for
looking at things in shops, but I do hate these crowds.
Kat Cunningham, 25
RADIO PLUGGER
I bought a top and
some sunglasses from asos.com, the only website I've ever shopped at. I don't
really buy on the net.
James Aduwa, 17
STUDENT
Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
They're like Pokemon but with monsters, and you can find them cheaper on the
internet than they are in the shops. I'm not doing my Christmas shopping on the
internet, but my Mum is.
Anna Jackson, 43
V&A CURATOR
A box of books
from Amazon, because books are heavy to carry home. Internet shopping is the
fashionable thing to do at the moment, but I do wonder whether or not people
will tire of it.
Jinye Kim, 23
BUSINESS STUDENT
A grey jacket from
Zara. The shop had sold out of my size, so it was useful to be able to get it
from the internet. Online shopping is often cheaper than the high street, too.
Dreem Nkumbula, 17
STUDENT
A Janet Jackson
CD. Going to the shops is a totally different experience. If I go to Oxford
Street I'll meet my friends and we'll have a wander and get some lunch. It's
not just about the shopping.
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