Singapore online shopping: Choosing between online portals and retail outlets

May 9
19:24

2012

Jenny Jonson

Jenny Jonson

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Shopping in Asian countries has for all time, been on the augment as most of the countries have quite a small amount of malls and retail stores to offer products at affordable prices.

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These days the shopping scenario has definitely seen a positive growth is due to the availability of most of the products at extremely cheap prices.  Also the main reason why shopping has been done on a wide scale especially in Asian countries is solely because of the ability to get gadgets,Singapore online shopping: Choosing between online portals and retail outlets   Articles electronics and fashionable apparels at relatively cheaper prices. Most of the people love to shop at such rates as they make it reasonably priced for fashionable and labelled products to be purchased. The main reason why online shopping hasn’t really gained an impetus is because of the constant scam and cons related to credit card shopping and the desire to feel the product before buying it. Most of the people in all the Asian countries love to bargain as much as they can for all their products which aren’t really possible online. Singapore online shopping though has seen quite an average rise in sales and support over the past couple of years.

The main reason for the average rise of the Singapore online shopping is because of the preference and desire of people to individually sense and feel the product before purchasing it, something which can never be done during online shopping. Even though there are plenty of online portals today operating in different parts of Singapore, still the profit and sales of it have hardly matched the profits generated through retails hopping. Malaysia online shopping is at a parallel echelon when compared to Singapore as the shopping in Singapore too also depends a lot on the bargaining factor amongst people. Moreover, In countries like Singapore and Malaysia, the product delivery has been below par as most of the product tend to reach the customers after a week or so which is definitely longer than the delivery time in other countries. Recently, to endorse the online shopping development, there has been substantial increase in the credit card promotions in the country. Several banks like Hong Leong Bank, EON Bank as well as UOB Bank have gone ahead to offer rebate and discount over credit cards to let more and more people gain the benefits of online shopping as a better and smarter way to shop or your favourite products. It also allows for effective luxury shopping online.

Bearing in mind how in style retail shopping in the country is, it is indeed a bit hard to say how far Singapore online shopping can go to give a good competition to the retail sector. The imperative aspect about shopping online is to let the consumers now the wonders of shopping through credit cards and saving a lot on money especially when you need it the most. Even though the snip factor will be present, we still have heaps of online shopping websites that have started to put forward products at a noteworthy quantity of discount to get on level terms with retail shopping.