A system for shopping for goods and services includes central
communications facilities and remote communications facilities connected
by communications links and means permitting data communications between
them. Central communications facilities offer goods and services in
competition with each other. Each central communications facility stores,
in addition to data, graphics in the form of video, and audio in the form
of computerized voice and music. Computer input devices at each remote
communications facility permit customers to access the data, graphics and
audio. Computers at each remote communications facility also enable that
facility to receive and download the data, graphics, and audio. Each
remote communications facility is adapted to enable a customer, after
viewing the data, graphics, and audio, to electronically negotiate a
price for the purchase of the goods and services. Each central
communications facility can generate and transmit to the remote facility
transaction specific paperwork relative to the price so negotiated.