why growing number of people shopping online

As our technology is growing immensely day-by-day, we are getting addicted to it. In the sense it’s the technology which should serve us not we serving the technology. This topic is an effort in a nutshell to show pro’s and con’s of online shopping.

When it’s started?

In the year 1970 Michael Aldrich invented online shopping. It was vaguely popularized with the introduction of credit cards and debit cards in early 90’s. It’s also the year when Tim Burner’s Lee invented first web browser. From that day to till date there is no downfall for the market including the knowledge about it.

Why the growth?

Can you find one person who has minimum of internet knowledge who says, he doesn’t know what eBay is. That is the power of online shopping. The main reason simple, it’s easy.

3 simple steps

1. Go to any web portal get registered yourself first.

2. After registering login into your account and start shopping.

3. Finally when you selected your products which are added to your account’s cart automatically, pay the amount finish! Done with shopping.

No more waiting in queue to pay the bill, no more walking two or three stores for the products. These are only some of the advantages of online shopping.

Hence the answer is, it’s easy and time saving. 90% of the online shoppers are belonging to working people. Where they don’t have enough time to go around and buy things, simply they can sit in front of their computer and buy their desired products. It’s a growing business. Consumer sales and services are grown due to online shopping. For example we can order our daily lunch online and get the fresh and good cooked food right on to the table and not to forget on time, this is just a sample. This is the success formula behind this kind of business, to attract customers and make them to come and buy things without any extra effort.

Advantages of online shopping

·Time saving when compared to normal shopping.

·Door delivery facilities no hassle of going out and giving some extra effort to buy things.

·Being up to date with the current market growths

·Instant reviews of the product we are buying. Even we can give our views about the product which would be greatest help for other who buy.

·All most all the products are under one roof i.e. once you open a portal you can buy different things at the same place.

·Different payment options for customer satisfaction.

·Discounts on all the products.

These are some of the advantages of online shopping.

This is all one side of the coin; now let’s see the other side of online shopping.

Disadvantages of online shopping

Security for the money transaction, goods worth of money are two main fatal issues in online shopping. Technology has two sharp edges, the other edge is, piracy. It’s not a safe idea to use the credit card often online. Every day we read news about losing money while using credit cards at public places like shopping malls, hotels and online shopping portals. Customers must be careful about giving their personal information to a third party vendor who is absolutely unknown to us. It’s wise to know about the security for the money first.

The second issue is quality of goods. Some times when you buy products online they turn out to be having some issues. These problems must be taken care with proper way otherwise it could end up in losing your money on faulty items. The best way is to first confirm the product quality before buying it. In this regard reviews will help us a lot, it’s better to read them in first case.

Finally the conclusion is online shopping is a boon to new types of marketing strategies for business enterprises. It’s the easiest and best way to promote your business worldwide. Have a happy and safe online shopping.

Give value to money.