Traditional
shopping nowadays is a bit troublesome on certain aspects. There is the effort
to actually leave your home to go to the location of the mall. Not only you
waste your energy but also spend extra cash on travel expense. Essentially, you
are spending more than what you think you are spending whenever you shop. Good
thing that we now have online shopping as an alternative way for shopping.
Shopping is no longer a time issue for most of us. To them, nighttime for them
is their daytime to us. These are the consumers who have unusual schedule and
is asleep in daytime. This doesn't allow them to have a normal lifestyle like
visiting the malls on a regular mall hours. Unlike most of us, they can't visit
any malls. Traditional malls are only available to them when they don't have
work. This is clearly harder for people who work on different time schedule. It
actually benefits them now that online shopping is an available option. Most of
the business is now being put up online.
As a
matter of fact, it only happened last year in the country. Once Lazada arrived
in the country, other online malls followed them. Actually, they are one of the
first online malls to arrive in the country. They can be availed also in other
South East Asia countries. The Philippines’' Ecommerce grew significantly after
they arrived in the country. It can't be helped to learn that they made a huge
impact on the local online scene. It actually made sense to launch it in the
Philippines since the competition is non-competitive. Their challenge is how
they will lure Internet users to visit their online mall. It was hard for them
to lure people since online payment is a trouble for most online users. It is
because exposing our credit card details online is quite dangerous.
Actually,
credit cards are not widely used in the country. Ecommerce in general really
had hard time growing in the country because of these limitations. This doesn't
translate for local online users not being familiar with online payment. A
customer in general judges an Ecommerce website right before it is given a
chance to introduce themselves to their market. Most of the time, we just
ignore online malls probably because we are new to it. To us, it's all put up
to scam local online users. This makes online shopping very hard to penetrate
just basing on these two issues. They solved these Ecommerce woes when they
arrived in the country.
The
Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall introduced an alternative payment method
called Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. Customers can pay only after their orders
have arrived and are handed over to them with this payment method. It is sort
of a security for any customer since they get to keep their money up until
exchange is done in real time. This allows customers to try shopping on their
mall even if it is their first time to try online shopping.
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