Lazada Philippines: The possibilities of shopping online

Did we ever imagined before that we can actually shop virtually especially during the days were technology was nowhere to where it is at now and that Internet didn’t exist yet? I’m sure if you asked someone during those times and they would have just laugh about the idea itself. Comparing to the old generation to this modern digital era, things have drastically changed in the tech and Internet industry. It has become a standard to be connected online. Initially, the only purpose was to get information and to communicate. But now, we can do a lot of the usual physical or offline activities we usually do such as shopping online.

But how does online shopping weigh in over traditional shopping with the local customers? If this was asked in the mid-2000, a lot of us would have said no on online shopping. The credibility of online malls is usually considered should a customer decide to shop on their online mall. It's just hard to ignore online frauds and scams happen making online customers avoid online shopping. The population of the local consumers in the Philippines only has a few credit cardholders. This makes it acceptable that any online customers will be skeptic in trying online shopping. Online malls should always have a secured credit card transaction for customers to find them trustworthy. These are the factors that customers assess before deciding if they preceded on shopping online.

Actually, online shopping changed after Lazada arrived in the country a couple of years ago. They actually came in with a solution on how they can eliminate the Ecommerce woes in the Philippines. Their solution was to offer an alternative payment method that will solve the local Ecommerce woes in the country. They referred to it as Cash on Delivery while other customers usually call it C.O.D. Customers will be relaxed that they are secured and can be trusted. Their service can be tested without having too much risk since they won't be demanded to pay via credit card and give away their cred card details.

How will this help the shopping of customers in online? The local online customers can go directly to the Lazada website and check out their huge selection. Customer can actually pay later and doesn't need to pay right away once they are set on what they want to buy. Customers who selected Cash on Delivery as their payment method won't be required to pay upfront before their orders are processed for delivery. Customers can relax after they have provided their shipment details and wait for its arrival, which usually takes two to five days but sometimes earlier. Once customers receive their order, that's the only time they are required to pay in cash. Once an order delivery is above one thousand pesos, Lazada will shoulder the delivery fee. Customer can feel assured that they have security on their money since they can keep it up until their orders arrived. This is actually unusual setup for an online business since customers hard the upper hand on this case.