Ecommerce | Online Shopping in India

Online shopping is becoming popular in India these days. There are several online shopping websites in India that offer vast, easy and interesting shopping experience. These websites have become extremely popular among the people of India due to hassle free advantages. In India, the fashion of online shopping and online shopping websites are growing day by day. Several online shopping websites in India are trying to provide more and more online services and facilities to the users.

With the help of online shopping websites, one can blindly trust the genuineness of products while shopping online. One of the major conveniences of online shopping websites in India is price comparison. It allows the users to compare the prices of all the desired products at one place. The online stores of shopping websites in India include products and services of the top companies at affordable prices. One can get an opportunity to compare prices and products of several online stores at the same time. The consumer can get a detailed account of the specifications of the commodity through the website.

Presently, most retailers have their own website through which one can shop online. One is not restricted within a geographic area. One can expand his or her shopping choices from retailers across the country and other parts of the world. One can get best possible deals by shopping through online shopping websites. Many online retailers provide discounts on products. Most online stores come out with special offers on selected products during festive seasons. Online merchants can bring out much more information about their product on a website.

Online shopping websites of different products update their offers regularly to stay ahead in the competition. They have the products of the best brands at display. The choices are unlimited and we can go through each and every product without moving out of our house. There are innumerable benefits associated with online shopping. The wide range of products like bags, books, clothes, kitchen appliances, mobile phones, TV, Audio systems, laptops, computers, cameras etc can be found in the stores of online shopping websites in India. 

If one is able to do online shopping, he or she will realize what the best shopping websites are and one will be able to buy the things very easily and quickly according to his or her needs and requirements. Shopping through online shopping websites is the most practical, economical and enjoyable method. It gives an opportunity to the buyer to shop round the clock. The online shopping websites also has the facility to deliver the products to the home of the buyer.

Online Gift Delivery Services in Vietnam

Shoppers in Vietnam are increasingly turning to online gift delivery services to avoid crowded market and shopping centres as Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported Tuesday.

Supermarkets and shops are busy as demand for Tet gifts increases and the economy sees signs of recovery while outlets have been serving both on the-spot customers and those who have turned to online shopping.

"This is the second year I've decided to buy gifts for my colleagues through the internet because its easy to select what I want," said Nguyen Thanh Binh, director of the DSC Information and Technology Joint Stock Company here.

In the last two weeks, online Tet gift service providers have launched a series of promotional programmes to attract more customers, with some companies offering between five to 10 percent discounts for bulk orders made via the internet.

The online Tet gift delivery service providers have established 24 hour hot lines to receive orders and have also launched consulting services for customers.

Tet gifts can be searched for using various criteria, be relatives, friends, counterparts or lovers.

According to online gift providers, Tet gift baskets remain the favourite gift of choice among customers.

The average price of a gift basket with five to 10 commodities stands between 120,000 VND (US$7) to 1 million VND (US$56).

The gifts include a variety of traditional products such as banh chung (square rice cake), dried fruits, confectionery and alcohol to modern products, electronic goods.

Nguyen Van Hai, at online distributor Vietnam Development and Investment Research joint Stock Co, said that the company had prepared more goods for sale than last year.

"To date, few individuals are ordering via internet, but companies are in bigger numbers," said Hai.

Nguyen Thu Hanh from the Thang Long Flower Delivery Company also said that the number of orders prior to Tet will double due to rising demand.

However, consumers have been warned that before clicking their mouse and making an online purchase that they check that they are dealing with reliable suppliers.

The number of online-swindles also has increased in the recent period.

Customers should select well known online service providers to guarantee good quality products, said Ho Anh Tuan, director of the Atech Communication Informatics Technology Co.

Online Food Sales DOUBLE in UK

UK consumers are forecast to spend £7.2bn on food and grocery shopping online by 2014, according to new research from IGD.

The forecast is nearly double the figure for 2009, when 13% of adults shopped online for groceries - an increase of 63% on 2006.

The research also showed that 61% of online grocery shoppers use more than one online store for their food shopping while 49% would like to try other supermarket websites. Although many are put off by the perceived effort involved.

However, 30% of online grocery shoppers purchase less often than once a month, while 61% of current and potential online shoppers said that removing delivery charges would be a key trigger for increasing online grocery shopping.

Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive, IGD, said: “Our research shows there is a great opportunity for grocery retailers and manufacturers to encourage shoppers to try online food shopping.

“People are increasingly mixing the channels they use for their weekly or monthly shop. Many are choosing to visit their local store on a regular basis, while purchasing a number of bulk items, like tinned foods and toiletries, online less frequently.

“The future of grocery shopping is ‘multi-channel’, with people shopping in different ways and using various outlets – whether convenience stores, online or hypermarkets.”

The research was based on interviews with 2,032 British shoppers, aged 16-64, in October 2009.
Source : Meat Trade News Daily

Definitions of Online Shopping

online shopping: A process in which images or listings of goods and services are viewed remotely via electronic means, e.g., a vendor's Web site, items are selected for purchase, and the transaction is completed electronically with a credit card or an established credit account. Note: Various encryption schemes may be, and usually are, used to reduce the risks of sending sensitive information, such as credit-card numbers, over the Internet or other telecommunications facility.

and On Wikipedia
Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall.

The metaphor of an online catalog is also used, by analogy with mail order catalogs. All types of stores have retail web sites, including those that do and do not also have physical storefronts and paper catalogs. Online shopping is a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions.

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