subject: Holiday Bazaar - Online Shopping Is The New Shopping Trend [print this page] Internet has completely transformed the way we used to live. It has made everything available to us with just few clicks. In fact, slowly and gradually it has virtualized everything that is present in the real world. You can surf Internet to gain any information, schedule your journey, seek education, send gifts and flowers, stay in touch with your friends and colleagues, increase your network of friends, and you can also shop for items.
There are several virtual stores which have a stack of assorted items ranging from consumer durables, electronic appliances, clothes, jewellery to high end items like cars, automobiles. In fact, you can seek to rent or purchase your property in an easy and hassle free way through Internet. If numbers and trends are to be believed then the ecommerce will grow up to $150 billion this year and with the projected growth rate of 10-12 % one can easily foresee the humongous propositions of ecommerce or online shopping.
The question is, why are people turning towards online shopping? The answer is quite simple, because of the numerous advantages that online shopping provides. Let us see few of these advantages:
It can be done from anywhere and at anytime.
People do not need to visit stores so it saves time and exertion.
Merchants and vendors are saved from the overhead cost of maintaining the store and inventory so they relay some cost benefits to the consumers.
Easy to maintain the entire supply chain.
Same experience as visiting any physical store.
Fast and secured payment gateways.
Lots of cool offers and discounts.
These advantages have lured many consumes to gain from online shopping. The only requirements to shop through internet are-a computer or a laptop and an internet connection. In fact, the growth of ecommerce can also be attributed to the growth of 3G mobile telephony. So, people having 3G mobile phones can easily carry out the entire shopping process. It has enabled people to carry Internet in their pocket and it is slated to penetrate a huge base of consumers in the coming years.
