Abstract: A method for allowing multiple users to collaboratively review and select items from one or more retailer servers, including receiving an indication to open a group shop from a first user with a second user at a shopping server, signaling to a second user that a first user has requested the shopping server to open the group shop, at the shopping server, opening the group shop between the first user and the second user, issuing a shop window user interface to the first user that includes a plurality of links to one or more retailer servers, and opening direct communication between the first user and the second user such that the first user's shop window UI is issued to a second user's shop window UI.