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Shop online with more confidence today than ever. As ecommerce becomes increasingly safe, online shopping is gaining widespread acceptance. Avoid congested parking lots, sullen clerks and jostling crowds. Take advantage of powerful tools to research products, check out merchants, find bargains, and save money. Or try out the popular online stores listed here. Many offer free shipping before Christmas and most ship to Canada.

Shopping Portals

eBay (auction) Buy.com Yahoo Shopping Yahoo Canada Shopping Altavista Shopping Canada.com (find U.S. sites that ship to Canada) CanadaShop Shop Canoe.ca ShopNow (60,000 merchants) C|Net's Shopping InternetShopper 800.com BlueFly Red Envelope Zazzle (art merchandise) CafePress (art merchandise)

The Big Chain Stores

Canadian Tire HBC (Bay/Zellers) Future Shop Radio Shack The Source Staples Walmart Sears Canada BlueLight (K-mart) Office Depot

Book Stores

Amazon Barnes & Noble BooksaMillion Bolens (Victoria) ABE Books (rare & out of print) Munro's (Victoria) Indigo

Buying Music CDs, Videos, DVDs

Mainstream Music Sources

Amazon Music Yahoo Shopping Music CD Universe ArtistDirect Tower Records

Specialty Music

LadySlipper Women's Music GoldenRod (women's, gay & lesbian) PapaJazz Music (rare jazz, folk & blues) Sugar Hill Records (blue grass, folk, blues) NorthSide Records (Scandinavia, Iceland, Faeroe Islands) Vanguard (folk, blues, blue grass) Putumayo World Music

Computers and Consumer Electronics Stores

Computer Stores

Dell CompuSmart Future Shop Amazon Software Buy.com Canada

Consumer Electronics Shops(PDAs, cameras, audio, etc.)

Future Shop Radio Shack The Source Amazon Consumer Electronics Amazon Digital Cameras 800.com

Safe Shopping Tips

SafeShopping.org BBBOnline FAQ Fool.com Guide to Online Shopping Consumer Reports Safe Shopping Tips & Merchant Ratings

Food

Online Chocolate Shops

Godiva Purdys (needs Flash) Rogers Chocolates Bernard Callebaut (needs Flash) Ghirardelli (no online store yet) Intemperantia

Buy Gourmet Foods & Gift Baskets

Gift Baskets from Flower.com Red Envelope GiftBaskets.com Hickory Farms

Buy Groceries Online

PeaPod Grocery Delivery (US only) The Country Grocer (Canada) OnlineGrocer (Ottawa, Canada) Thrifty Foods (Coming soon!!) Safeway (US only) NetGrocer (US only) ValuePage Supermarket Coupons (US only)

Pamper Someone Special

Stylish Wedding Favours La Senza Victoria's Secret Bare Necessities Lingerie by Lori (Canada) PerfumeHeaven (Canada) FragranceNet The Body Shop Lush (Canada) JewelryRings.com JewelryDays Dhanish.com Jewelry Directory

Shop for Home & Garden

NorthernBlinds.com (Canada) Kingcord Hammocks Hammock Universe Amazon Tools & Hardware Amazon Cooking, Food & Wine Cooking.com

Toy Stores

eToys Amazon Toys (Toys R Us) Alex & Zoe (Canada) DisneyStore.com Mastermind Educational Toys (Canada/US) Smarterkids