‘Tis the Season for Online Shopping
Aw Christmas time……if you aren’t brave enough to face the crowds at the malls, you’re likely ordering online. And with $18 billion already spent, you aren’t alone.
Remember when you would flip through catalogs and place orders by phone? Yeah, I’m dating myself a bit, but I’m willing to bet it’s been close to forever since you’ve done so. In recent years it seems like if you aren’t purchasing in the store you’re ordering online. And if something in one of the catalogs does catch your eye, you still go to the website to check it out, see it in every color, view it in all its 3D glory and then finally place your order.
I can remember as a kid WAITING for the Toys R Us and Sears catalog to come in the mail so my brothers and I could mark it up with what we wanted for Christmas. What do kids do now? Blog about it? Post a bulletin on MySpace? Put it on Facebook? Times sure have changed and with over $800 million sold online in ONE DAY, I’d say the days of earmarking catalogs are long gone.
P.S. Mom & Dad, in case you’re reading this blog, I’d love these in chocolate brown!
Ha! I completely forgot about catalogs. How sad. Until reading this I forgot about my childhood memory of flipping through the Sears catalog with my brother looking for cool stuff. We used to get mad at all the other content that we had to flip through to get to the toys. Eventually that gave way to a simple, “I don’t want anything else except the new Sega Genesis”