Distance selling includes mail order, catalogue sales, telephone solicitations and automated vending.
Electronic commerce includes online shopping, internet trading platforms, travel portals, global distribution systems and teleshopping.
[2] Fashion and lifestyle brands have entered the non-store retailing space including Everlane, Dollar Shave Club, and Tieks.
Non-store retailing is therefore not only used by established brick and mortar business retailers who develop an online bricks and clicks business model presence, but also by the individual pure play, often him- or herself a consumer, to create an online store or to run sales parties.
A consumer could make a decision within a period of seven working days of the contract of sale, without penalty and without giving a reason.