American Shoppers Online – Where Are They?
Long Beach, CA – Online shopping generates hundreds of millions of dollars in sales every single day. Some of the key players are Amazon.com, eBay.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and tons of others that are popular online and offline such as Walmart.com and Target.com. This past November alone, online shoppers spent 8.8 billion dollars, up 19% from last November’s spending of 7.4 billion. With online shopping being so popular, why are some African-Americans still talking about how skeptical they are to use their credit cards on the web? Perhaps there are some in the Black community that are unaware of the facts. According to an article on BlackNews.com, here are four common misconceptions about buying online: 1) Buying online is not safe. If this were true, then why do 100 million consumers make purchases online everyday? Technology is so advanced that online credit card transactions are anywhere from 99% – 100% secure. That’s safer than ordering over the phone. Plus, many sites now allow the
