Apparatus and methods for an electronic shopping service. The service
enables a consumer to select line items from electronic receipts and
group them as a review list. The consumer may create groups of people to
have access to the review list and may assign access permissions to each
of the review groups. A member of a review group may review the items in
a review list and comment on the items. The comments may be directed to
the consumer or to other members of the review group. The review may be
off-line or on-line, as in a chat session or telephone or audiovisual
conference. The consumer or a review-group member may order on-line any
of the items listed in a review list. The consumer or a review-group
member may add products from e-commerce sites to the review list (if so
authorized). The shopping service handles the ordering. Where the items
to be purchased are from multiple e-commercial sites, the shopping
service places multiple orders as necessary, with shipping and payment as
directed by the consumer. The shopping service may enable the consumer or
a review-group member to match items from a review list for comparison.
The comparison may be visual, cost-wise, etc. The service may enable a
consumer to upload data to use in the item comparison. Such data may
include images of the consumer or of his belongings, for example.