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- In early 2019, online shopping surpassed shopping conducted in physical stores for the first time in American history.
- With five easy tricks up your sleeve, you can save hundreds of dollars a year shopping online for products you were already going to buy anyway.
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The question is no longer whether or not online shopping is here to stay, it's whether brick-and-mortar stores are going to make it.
In early 2019, the sales volume of so-called non-store shopping, aka online shopping, surpassed the volume of sales at brick-and-mortar locations for the first time in the nation's history. With four out of five Americans now shopping online, this type of commerce is the new normal.
Considering the fact that you and just about everyone else in America will be doing more and more of your buying via computer, tablet, or smartphone, it's important that you learn ways to save money when shopping online, which you can do without changing the types of purchases you make.
Andrew Scarborough, cofounder and chief operations officer of PriceWaiter, said he knows that "everyone is looking to save some money when they shop online right now."
Here, he offers up five top tips to help you do just that.