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Do you think that online shopping has affected traditional shopping?

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Question added by Walid Dami , Managing Director , Hexa United LLC
Date Posted: 2015/10/27
Rameez Bin Abdul Majeed
by Rameez Bin Abdul Majeed , Digital Marketing Manager , Muscat Higher Education Centre

Yes of course, online shopping has changed the business structure of traditional shopping. According to the researches, 77 out of every 100 people are now connected to the internet and depends on the wide facilities to comfort their needs. 

Price, Convenience and the Wide range of products are the features that drive consumers to shop online which reduced the sale density of retailers. Actually, most of the retailers are now adapting to the situation by initiating their business to be a part of online shopping.

Anas Alshanti
by Anas Alshanti , Founder - CEO , Shoplyst.com

I believe that online shopping actually positively helped traditional in-store shopping, it's just a matter of how active they are socializing online with their customers.

Yes it is affecting the traditional way! nowadays people are buying more from the online than going to the mall. It's more easy and fun for most people. It also allow people to buy from different cites and even different countries. There is also a lot of competitions in the pricing especially if you buying from outside the country. Online shopping is the future shopping!!!

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam , SEO Specialist , ChefOnline

There is no doubt about it that online shopping has affected the traditional shopping as people are using online shopping portal instead of going to malls for shopping.

Swafwan salim
by Swafwan salim , Digital Marketing Executive , Mymall.ae

No , I dont think so its about your audiance and poduct. in market thre is room for both .and i agreed wit Mr.Motasem Shunnaq 's Answer . 

 Motasem Shunnaq

Motasem Shunnaq Contact Center Operations & Social Media Team Leader at Umniah

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Online shopping has drastically affected the retail market. People nowadays prefer online over offline as it usually offers heavy discounts, free delivery and easy return/cancellation policies. Although, we must realise that the majority of our populations has no access to internet. Thus, the retail sector still has some years at hand.Although, there are many transformations taking place in the retail sector as well. Even the internet users are skeptical about where their product is coming from, how they are being offered huge discounts, etc. This issue is solved by a new way of 'online offline shopping', wherein the customers browse through their famous stores online, thereby guaranteeing authenticity of the product, and later place the order online, which is delivered to them for free.You could check www.findable.in for such services. They also take orders on Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. This helps boost our retail sector which is adversely affected in big cites, and also gives customers the convenience of free delivery along with an assurance of quality and trust.

Awais Karamat
by Awais Karamat , Senior Coach | SEO | Digital Marketing , Digiskills.pk

yes, Somehow online shopping effected the traditional shopping because now world becoming busy day by day and people do not have enough time to go out and spend time on shopping, so they prefer to order goods through internet that save their time and efforts. 

Motasem Shunnaq
by Motasem Shunnaq , Business/Data Analyst , Arab Bank

Here it depends on the product, people still trust their visual and tangabile judgment in any physical product, while talking about digital products. then defintely people will go to online shopping.

Nano Logi
by Nano Logi , سكرتيرة تنفيذية , el bolty groub

Certainly we can not overlook the role of e-marketing and achievements of the raid on marketing markets in the world in light of the technological revolution that we are living now

Arundhuti Dhar
by Arundhuti Dhar , Assistant Vice President Digital Marketing , Sastasundar.com

Online Shopping has been a game changer and yes it has certainly affected traditional shopping as it has brought in ease, comfort saving time, energy and money.

In coming days with more digitalisation the trend will shift further to online shopping. This is happening for simple reasons: 1. Pleople have less time with long work schedules.The time they are left with after office, they want to have a quality time with friends and family rather than standing in queus for paying bills. Online Shopping is the most convenient solution for that.

2. People spend most of their time on mobile phones for computers and they can address their shoppinng needs sitting at office, home, travelling, whenever and from wherever thehy want.

3. There are attractive offers also available for paying online and they are getting the consumers are getting advantage of the same.

There are a number of more reasons, however will keep it to the above for now.

Emicelle Caasi
by Emicelle Caasi , Administrative Clerk , City Government of Dvao

I think online shopping affects the traditional way of shopping, simply because in the traditional way, the costumer seeks to see the product first, makes choices and outright payment., time consuming but effective. However, Online makes the opposite in the way that makes all the more complicated, precisely in the nature of the product, hence, especially if there is some errors in the product, more time tis needed to make the returns, therefore I see it, covenient but less effective.

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