Lazada review: Reserving money, time and energy when shopping

We all have our fair share of getting hooked on using the Internet. It evolved into a shopping platform as well beyond its usual purpose like getting information, communicating to people and even entertainment via media streaming online. It is pretty clear that Internet is already part of our lifestyle. A lot of us even depend on it on daily basis to make what we do faster and easier. Traditionally, things were done the harder and demands more energy like when doing shopping. It's always a good thing if Filipinos have alternative on traditional shopping such as online shopping. The local consumers get an upper hand since time of availability won't matter anyone. These consumers are the ones who have unusual lifestyle since they prefer to do everything at night. These are the customers who work on graveyard shift.

Traditional malls are usually closed already by the time they are free. Even if these people want to visit traditional malls, they can't. Traditional malls are only available during weekends or holidays. It's way harder for them if compared to people who work on a normal shift. Good thing they can now rely on online shopping to address their shopping needs. Most of the businesses are now being put up online. Actually, this only started last year in the Philippines. Once Lazada arrived in the country, other online malls followed them. They are one of the first online stores to grace the local online market. Some South East Asia countries also have Lazada on their country. The Ecommerce industry had a spike once the Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall arrived in South East Asia compared to the previous years.

It's safe to say that they made a huge impact on the local Ecommerce industry. The local online scene has no competition so it only made sense to launch it in the country. It's actually more on how they will convert the online users to become their visitors. Online payment is a problem for most people it is why it was harder for them to be lured. The local online users were just hesitant to use their credit card since it exposes their personal details. What makes it challenging is that majority of the population are not credit card owners. This has slowed down the growth of Ecommerce in the Philippines. This doesn't translate for local online users not being familiar with online payment. We don't give online malls a second chance since we consider risk and disregard reward right away.

In essence, we just don't trust dealing with online malls especially for our first time attempt. Most of the time, we consider them as a scam the minute we see them online. It is what makes Ecommerce very hard to penetrate for online businesses. It's great that these Ecommerce issues have been solved by Lazada. An alternative payment method called Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. was introduced by Lazada. They don't necessarily require their customers to pay right away only until they received their order package in real time.