NetMarket may ask if you'd like fries with that new car. CDNow and myLaunch have similar services for music. Check out Yahoo's listing , too.
Malls provide online storefronts for independent vendors.
Over dinner one night in 1973, Walter Forbes and his friends from Harvard Business School were musing about the day people might choose to shop electronically, rather than in real stores. But Forbes, then 30, began plotting ways to make the fantasy come true. The idea never took off. Forbes lost millions and eventually shifted the company's focus to telephone and catalog marketing. Now, technology is finally catching up with Forbes.