Web shopping is booming right now. In fact sales are expected to be up more than 22 percent this holiday season compared to last year. Why? People don’t want to get in their cars and drive around to shop because the cost of gas is so high. The down side to the online shopping is the change in shipping policies. Many have raised the amount of merchandise you have to buy before you get free shipping. Others have just created flat rates based on how much you buy. Amazon.com used to offer free shipping on orders over $25. But it’s so hard to tell what items are Amazon items and what items come from the other merchants on the site, which are not eligible for free shipping. So, the site has gotten much more confusing. Still, people visit it all the time. So, what percent of their shopping will people do online versus in stores this year? Would you believe it’s only 5 percent? Of course, some people will do 100 percent of their shopping online. But for the majority of people, they will do about 95 percent of their shopping in regular retail stores.