Everyone loves shopping, but do you know who loves shopping more, I think you guessed it right - Women love to shop more than men. It is not that men don't love shopping but they find it boring.
Women can go around shopping for hours while on the other hand men start to get stressed out quickly. I may not know about all the men but I get bored or stressed very quickly, and to carry the bags and move on the crowded stores and busy roads makes it, even more, worse. A few years ago people use their plan their shopping and would mostly prefer weekends - Saturday or Sunday. But today time has changed, the way of shopping has changed, the style has changed and above all the minds of the people have changed when it comes to shopping - Gone are the days when people use to catch taxis or buses and go out for shopping and bargain for every small thing and rush back home after hours. Today you can sit back at home with a cup of coffee in your hand and shop for every little thing on your PC or Laptop - thanks to online shopping that has made life easy for us or at least men I can say.
Every little thing that is required in day to day activity is available online at the click of the button, this is slowly disconnecting the consumers from the retail shops. The technology has brought in rapid changes and people are getting adapted to it quickly. A number of online websites like Amazon, E-Bay, Flipkart and Snapdeal provide a variety of goods like clothes, shoes, bags, mobiles, clutches, watches, computers, laptops health and fitness products, consumer electronics and every little thing that you can think of. The consumer has also become smarter today and know what they are buying and what is the best price.
Benefits
Saves time
Time is very precious, today no one has time to go out shopping for hours, Online shopping has drastically changed this. You can shop for your favorite product from anywhere in the world at any time.Discounts and Promotions
Online shopping sites provide a huge discount to attract consumers, they provide with various discount coupons and lots of other offers which the consumer is deprived off when shopping on retail stores. More and more consumers are attracted towards this which makes online shopping even more better for the people.Returns
When you visit any store, you come across a board which reads 'No Return No Exchange', so you have to think twice before buying any product, but when it comes to online shopping you can easily return the product if you are not satisfied with it without any hassle.Product Information
The reviews of the customers are available for every product, so there is no one who can mislead you or give wrong information about the product. If you are satisfied you can make the purchase, which is not the case in retail shopping where you have to depend on the information provided by the salesman about the particular product.
There may be certain disadvantages of online shopping that cannot be ruled out, but with the changing time e-commerce market is growing at a rapid pace and more and more people even elderly persons are getting used to it. It cannot be ruled out that consumer is the king online and offline.