Maria Semple Quotes

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

I use Amazon for books. I use Amazon for loads of other things. I regard Amazon as a source, as I think a lot of other people do.

At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

I love shopping, but I only really have time to do it online.

I shop everywhere. I love to shop online.Ebay is like heaven for me.

I think, as e-commerce grows as a category, most e-commerce companies are focused on women because they are the decision makers and the consumers. When you think of e-commerce, and fashion is a big part of that, women are much more in tune with what other women are looking for online.

I particularly like Strellson because I love one-stop shopping. I don't like going store to store. I want to go to one store: look, see, buy, go. But shopping takes time. If I have three or four hours, I play golf.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.

My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.