America has turned every holiday on its national calendar into an excuse for shopping, with Black Friday damn near cannibalizing Thanksgiving. But nothing compares to the online ordering orgy that is 11/11, China's Singles' Day, where $8 billion worth of crap has already been snapped up at deep discounts—and that's …

Since the dawn of the internet, shoppers who take a risk by purchasing something online that they can't see or try on experience enjoyed a small (albeit legally grey area) kickback: avoiding the sales tax they'd pay if they bought the same item from a brick-and-mortar (or, you know, drywall-and-vinyl siding) store.…

If you wouldn't pay $350 for Brooks Brothers chopsticks, today is your lucky day: They're on sale!

Free People is resorting to something innovative in the way it markets $96 tank tops that look like sun-stained handkerchiefs: scrapping models entirely. For a two-week span starting tomorrow, all of the images used to sell certain clothing items will be user-submitted photos of shoppers modeling the items they…

If you forgot someone on Christmas morning, good news: You've got a one-time pass, courtesy of UPS. According to the Wall Street Journal, eleventh-hour online orders swamped the company, and many packages didn't arrive by December 25th despite retailers' promises.

Thanksgiving is next week, which means we're barreling toward the time of the year when nationwide productivity falls off a cliff as everyone with a desk job starts cruising online sales all day, every day. Just in time for this influx of shoppers, AdWeek reports, Target has redesigned its website, and boy oh boy is…

H&M promised to launch online shopping in the U.S. in August, and here it is, the first day of the month, and the online shop is open. Here's what you'll find:

Praise the Goddess of Fast Fashion: After operating here for 13 years, hip, affordable Swedish retailer H&M is finally going to offer online shopping to those of us in the U.S.

Oh, those salad days when you could shop and carouse online without any fear of the tax man; the days when you could safely take an Ambien and wake up to an inbox full of receipts from various internet retailers and think yes, I really did by a to-scale replica of Iron Throne, but, hey, at least I can skip out on…

Unless you want to end up paying more.

If you love shopping with the click of a mouse, be advised: Online sales tax is nigh. ABC News reports that shoppers could pay at least 5 percent more than they do today:

We received multiple tips today with links to an online store that calls itself the Abercrombie & Fitch Outlet, to a product in the store called "N***** Brown Pants." Using a racial slur as a youthful, carefree, and edgy touch in a product name would be a totally fucked up, racist thing for Abercrombie to do — if the…

Want to know what's in Amazon's Home & Kitchen department? Well, they've got some shower curtains, some jewelry organizers, some nice vacuum cleaners ... oh, and Nazi flags. Lots and lots of Nazi flags.

Over the last few years, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the world of online commerce: it seems that people tend to buy things during evening hours, right around when they're also unwinding after work with a glass or entire bottle of wine. While you may have thought it your own mildly embarrassing secret vice,…