Now you have access to the most complete shopping mall, product catalog, and service directory ever imagined. You can also just window-shop. The Internet is ideal for comparison shopping. There are programs that let you name your price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, cars, even phone service, by placing a bid online and waiting for a supplier to accept your offer. If you deal with reliable merchants, online shopping is as safe as real world shopping.
Most people pay for online purchases by credit card.
Credit card information is transmitted in coded form, and is quite secure. You can also complete online transactions with a personal check sent by regular mail. The amount of information available on the Internet is astonishing, and much of it is free. CyberSavvy older people, in fact, are fast becoming health savvy, investment savvy, weather savvy, and consumer savvy. The Internet can take you to the stacks in the Library of Congress and to paintings at the Louvre Museum in Paris.