This country fought a 50 year war in the name of Capitalism/Free Trade, but only 5% of it chooses to save money by buying online. People would rather give their money to seedy companies like Best Buy and give into the convenience of thinking thoughts that don't acknowledge all facets of the reality at hand.
The fact is most identity theft happens online, yes, but the majority of it happens because people open emails from people they don't know or don't know how to spot spoof emails.
If people would get their act together, identity theft would probably be more likely to happen the way people are afraid it would happen if they shopped online, but it would probably be less common because websites that have valuable information pay good money to secure that information so that unwarranted peeks don't take place.
I can understand that saving $5 on a CD or DVD or whatever isn't a big deal to a lot of people, but in this economy, you'd think a lot of people, maybe not as many but certainly more than 5%, would value their money enough to try to keep as much of it as possible by not wasting that $5. I mean, with that $5 saved, whoever saves it could pay for half of a casual dining meal w/ a drink (unless the casual dining meal is at Red Lobster; half of a Red Lobster meal is apprx $7.50, which isn't much more than $5; and if you save $5 on each of THREE CDs/other/? that's pretty close to, if not just plain all, that you need to visit a casually fancy place like Red Lobster...).
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