Solving our shopping woes

Internet usage has become a necessity to everyone ever since it came out of the picture. It has drastically fast-paced most of our usual offline activities. Arguably, it’s biggest source of information. It’s scope is so big that it eliminated the days were people buy encyclopedias and stop visiting local libraries on a regular basis. A lot of us think of online shopping as a helpful alternative in traditional shopping. No longer will it be frustrating for shoppers who have a busy schedule or have no free time during daytime. These consumers are the ones who have unusual lifestyle since they prefer to do everything at night. Normally, these are the people who work at night. They are only free when mall hours are actually closed. These are the people who can't visit malls when they want.

It's only during holidays or weekends when they can visit these traditional malls. It's obvious with their time schedule; they can't just gain access on malls at their will. Good news for them - online shopping is now an available option for them. A lot of established offline business is now shifting to online. It only started to rise last year in the Philippines. Online malls started to show up everywhere when Lazada came in. The Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall is one of the online malls to offer huge selections similar to an online mall. They can be availed also in other South East Asia countries. After they arrived in the country, Ecommerce immediately grew exponentially. It's safe to say that they made a huge impact on the local Ecommerce industry.

Competition in the local Ecommerce industry was really low that it made sense for their arrival in the country. However, the challenge lies on how they will entire the local online users to try their website. One of the factors why online users were hard to lure is because they are not familiar with online payment. It's just really hard to trust online since credit card details might be compromised if used online. Actually, only a small ration in the population has their own credit cards in the Philippines. It's because of this limitation on why Ecommerce never took off in the country. Local online users are not relatively unfamiliar with online payment. A customer in general judges an Ecommerce website right before it is given a chance to introduce themselves to their market. It pretty clear that we don't trust online stores right away.

Most of the time, we consider them as a scam the minute we see them online. This makes online shopping very hard to penetrate just basing on these two issues. But the Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall made a breakthrough to eliminate these two problems in the country. They came up with an alternative payment method they called Cash on Delivery or C.O.D.   Payment with them is not required to be right away and customers can keep it up until they receive their orders.