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Predicting Shoppers' Acceptance of E-Shopping on the Internet

The emergence and rapid escalation of e-retailing has triggered many changes in daily life of the shoppers as well as the marketers. E-retailing is playing a major role in the Indian economy and is expected to change the current scenario of shopping from physical stores to e-stores. Similarly, changes in consumers' attitudes along with the availability of cheaper and reliable technology have led to a significant growth in online sales around the world. The chapter aims to examine the shoppers' attitudes towards e-shopping and also to find the critical reasons for not shopping through online. The results reveal that the shoppers are still hesitating to purchase online. The most important reasons for not shopping online are preferring to buy by touching and feeling, online security and privacy, and customer service quality. The factors influencing to buy online are being able to get detailed product information, product delivery, convenience, product quality, and competitive prices. These results also have some practical implications for managers and strategists of e-stores.