Sentence examples for shopping category from inspiring English sources

THE Internet has created a new shopping category: only on the Web.

For this haven of luxury, drawing tony local clients, is creating a shopping category different from the megastores of Bond Street, although Ralph Lauren is rumored to be heading to Mount Street.

Like a handful of other online companies, DealTime offers product ratings that are written by consumers on the Web site of Epinions (pronounced EE-pinions), which occupies another tier in the comparison shopping category.

The search feature will be an important improvement for shoppers, Mr. Marentis said, because it will analyze the most popular items in any given shopping category, and list those results first.

Days later, after hours spent comparing prices and availability at the big travel sites -- www.expedia.com, travelocity.com and www.orbitz.com all have partnerships with several car rental companies -- I realized that car rental was yet another shopping category in which it paid to be obsessive.

The one shopping category that's cutting strongest against the grain is electronics, where 24.2% of consumers report buying them, up from 16.9% last year.

Software and music compact discs were in the second tier of online shopping categories, with 22percentt of consumers choosing those items.

They opt for small accordion folders with tabs for shopping categories that correspond to store aisles, like "baking" and "frozen foods".

Sites like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Go flourished, as retailers fought for top billing within the portals' shopping categories.

Shopping categories include health and beauty, electronics and jewelry, but "apparel has the most user interest so far," said Tony Sayegh, the company's chief executive.

The site's design is somewhat simpler than Amazon's, dominated, when I visited, by a small number of shopping categories — household essentials, gadgets, and the like — as well as the color purple.