Meta shopping is something relatively new on the internet panorama but it is absolutely taking the world as we know it by storm. This is something so subtle but yet so powerful in so many ways, it would be crazy not to use meta shopping engines for many of your shopping needs.

Why Meta Shop?

Meta shopping has radically transformed the shopping experience, especially in the few areas where people felt they still needed to go to malls for, like shopping for clothing. Meta-shopping for clothes is truly a game changer. This new level of effectiveness in shopping for things online may truly spell the death knell for malls around the world.

Found exactly what you want, but not in the color and size you want? Meta shopping can take care of that for you. It can even store your measurements, and connect you with a tailor who can make what you want or need, but tailored to you, with all the data passing automatically.

Ok, But What Exactly Is It?

For those of you who are not one hundred percent familiar with the term, meta shopping is to shopping what meta search engines were to the traditional search engines back in the day.

Those of us who remember the early days of the web in the 90s remember there being several popular search engines, and then Meta Crawler came out and changed the game by being a META search engine that searched all the other search engines at once. Most of what was once the old search engines ended up being assmiliated by Google, but there are modern meta search engines that are more powerful than ever.

Meta shopping works the same way; sites such as Lyst, Amazon Fashion and The Iconic all link to multiple retailers and allows for a common interface to shop all of them. ‘  and add in the additional links to Amazon and The Iconic.  Often a common shopping cart is even included. And the best part is that the whole process is run by smart algorithms that can be educated about your tastes, preferences, styles and needs. The algorithm even learns from you naturally as time goes on and helps you to make more intelligent shopping decisions.

Where is Meta-Shopping Most Effective?

We have found over time meta shopping is the most effective in areas where the choices are so many they can become bewildering. This is especially true for areas like clothes as mentioned above, but also for things like car parts and electronics, where you have many similar options, and a meta shopping engine can help you sort through all of them more quickly and better.