With Thanksgiving approaching rapidly, the department stores are starting to prepare for the holiday rush for shopping. If the thought of wrestling for another "Tickle Me Elmo" doll or trying to get the pants in the size you need turns the turkey in your stomach, look to the Internet for all your shopping needs.

Better than searching the whole Internet, I am going to give you a single stop that you can use to link to almost everything you can possible want to give (or get for yourself) this year: The Internet Mall.

Last year at this time, The Internet Mall boasted "over 18,000 stores." This year that number is 27,000 and there have been some improvements. Calling itself "The World's Largest Shopping Mall," this site has won the very top Internet awards for design and content.

The best thing about this mall is that you can search for directly or window shop by category. If you are looking for a particular store or clothing line, just type it in.

For clothing, you can browse and order directly online from typical mall clothing stores like JC Penney, Eddie Bauer or The Gap. You can also scan and order from traditional catalogs like J. Crew, L.L. Bean, Land's End and Spiegel or unique ones like Ecolution-Cyber Hemp (100% organically grown hemp products).

Whether you are a guy needing the classic comfort of Rockport Shoes or gal looking for the elegant, but possible painful, 11cm+ "truly high heels" at Veronica's High Heel Palace, you can get it off the Internet.

For those who are intimidated by shopping for intimate apparel in stores, you can order it online from one of the most famous lingerie stores in the world, Fredericks of Hollywood also linked from The Internet Mall.

If you need sports and leisure equipment, you can find it listed here whether you need golf clubs, fishing poles or hunting rifles. Get top quality treadmills or low priced barbells. SCUBA with a friend or blast an adversary with a paintball game pistol. Relax with a game of billiards or get a rush from snow skiing or parachuting.

In the Furniture and Household Items area you can buy the basic building materials like house plans, framing material , roofing shingles, tub enclosures, plumbing fixtures and septic tanks. If you already have your house built and fixed and just need something to go in it, get refrigerators, rocker recliner sectionals, antique stoves, bean bag chairs, grandfather clocks and lava lamps. To properly live in your house you can stock up on bathroom towels, ruffled bed sheets and hand-braided rugs. For cooking, get exotic spice racks, woodchip or propane burning barbecue pits, razor-sharp cutlery, expresso machines, bone china or no-stick pots and pans.

In the Food and Beverages section you can order sweets, stouts, snacks, spices, supplements and smokes. If it is your pleasure, you can enjoy cappuccino, chardonnay, chocolate, cheddar cheese, Carlo Churchill cigars.

If you are in the market for electronics, there is no better place to shop than the World Wide Web. You can get anything even remotely related to computers plus stereo, televisions, camcorders and much more.

While you could check all the individual stores listed here in The Internet Mall, I suggest you first start your computer searches at Computer ESP. This is the only site I mention that is not in the mall listings.

Like it announces from its home page, "ComputerESP scans and compares over a million prices from major computer cyberstores in US and Canada and updates over 100,000 prices a day on average." You can either search by keyword or browse by category. Prices and links to online purchases are quickly displayed with your search results, so you are never more than a few clicks away from getting the best price on a computer or accessories.

Other tops of my list include Amazon Books (claiming the "Earth's Biggest Bookstore") for books and CDNOW (claiming "The World's Largest Music Store"). Both can be found in The Internet Mall listings.

While there were many other categories covering the 27,000+ entries, there was just too much to cover here. Visit for yourself and make The Internet Mall your first and possibly last stop for shopping this holiday season.