Blog : How Covid 19 Has Increased the Importance of eCommerce

COVID19, the pandemic has made us all locked down at our home. It is so infectious that to maintain social distancing we are avoiding places where people gather for different purposes. Market, shopping mall, departmental stores are such places where we people gather for buying and selling. But these places are an excellent exchange place for the virus. Contamination occurs when we come in contact with the crowd.

But, by maintaining social distancing and confining us in a room we cannot run our daily life. We need to live and to live we need our daily food, medicine, clothing and other daily ingredients. To get these products right at their hand people are not going outside. We are now depending on the online order and delivery system. Online purchasing trend has boost up e-commerce already.

According to a recent report COVID-19 has accelerated the growth of e-commerce. If you compare the recent online transaction with that of previous years, you will find that online spending has increased by nearly 75% - 80%. Online purchasing habit that we have grown during this pandemic may turn permanent. This is mainly because of movement restrictions and the need to stay at home. This is why people have realized that eCommerce stores are the only way to get the things they need.

Though social distancing measures and lockdown system are being relaxed in some areas all over the world, the habit of online shopping has been set. People are finding it safer. You can buy products in a relaxed way right from your home and it saves time. Earlier the old rigid people who were very reluctant to online shopping, have changed their habit and finding it safer for their health. Thus, their changing habit has a direct effect on boosting e-commerce.

Online shopping is a very simple process. With the help of even a small smartphone, you can buy anything right from the grocery items to electronic gadgets from anywhere of the world. These sites are well illustrated with pictures. That is why online shopping is so easy that even a child can do shopping.

You can do online shopping by credit or debit cards, and various types of e-wallet. This new trend of shopping is controlling e-commerce with great importance. Apart from online shopping by using social media, internet telephone and teleconferencing, and streaming of videos and film e-commerce is getting boosted day by day.