I think shopping online is the way of the future.
The future? It is the way of the "now"... Every year e-commerce gets bigger and bigger with selling and buying.  I love it!
Do you think Amazon will stay a superpower in online shopping?
Oh yes absolutely! They now are even doing medicine with mail prescriptions. Have you checked out their tax policy changes?
I have not. Are they doing something good with them?
Tax policy and economic inequality in the United States
Tax policy and economic inequality in the United States discusses how tax policy affects the distribution of income and wealth in the United States. Income inequality can be measured before- and after-tax; this article focuses on the after-tax aspects. Income tax rates applied to various income levels and tax expenditures (i.e., deductions, exemptions, and preferential rates that modify the outcome of the rate structure) primarily drive how market results are redistributed to impact the after-tax inequality
more aspects can be examined at a time. In this way the evaluation can be completed more quickly. This is how communal shopping facilitates a quicker purchase decision. 
With the advent of the Internet and the vast popularity of online shopping, communal shopping was sure to hit the Net. With technologies such as "remote webpage sharing" and online chat, online users can now shop together even though they are located in different places.
See also.
- E-commerce
- Social commerce
- Social shopping