Online shopping has become a very important part of my life. I live in a small town that doesn't have very many stores to choose from. I also do a lot of stuff online where I earn PayPal or Amazon money that I want to spend online. Whatever your reasons are, shopping online has become an important part of our lives. Many stores offer deals on shipping so it can actually save you time and money.
Last week I had sixty dollars in my PayPal account from Ebates (look for another post about this) and I was looking to shop for some Thanksgiving basics online. I headed over to Walmart.com because I know they have good shipping deals and low prices. I was shocked to find that their prices were higher than I expected. What made it worse was they gave an online price and then a cheaper 'in-store' price. Obviously I wasn't going to pay more to shop online and I certainly wasn't driving all the way to Wal-Mart in the next town over. So what did I do? I headed over to Target.com who actually was having a great sale. I stocked up on lots of my basics for Thanksgiving like poultry seasoning, cranberry sauce, mini marshmallows and more. Target was having a deal where if you spent $25 you got free shipping. I ended up spending $31 and the best part was UPS brought my package the next evening. I was really surprised how quickly it came! Also when I compared the prices from Target to my local supermarket's holiday sales, I still saved money!
This morning as I was watching the news, a segment came up about how Wal-Mart is charging more on certain food and home items online to try and drum up more in-store business. Well I'm sorry to tell you Wal-Mart but I'm not paying more to shop online and I'm not going to head over to a store to save either. What I'll continue to do is price shop online to find the best prices or just shop at my own local store in person. I sure hope Wal-Mart takes a second look at this idea because it seems kinda silly to me. Online shopping makes up a huge portion of business for stores and some of us really like to shop from home in our pj's!
Would you pay more to shop online?
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