Lazada Review: Online shopping Becoming part of our lifestyle

Shopping will always be part of our lifestyle. These may be things that we buy out of necessity or luxury. Let’s all admit it, we all love doing shopping! To some it even releases their stress for a short while. Well, mostly for women. Going to traditional malls is like paradise for them as they shop around each boutique they feel like buying something. Although shopping brings great joy to most of us, it can’t be denied that it is very tiring to do. Not to mention, spending more time and energy when shopping. Now, it is made available in online. Online shopping is actually a very helpful alternative for people in address their shopping needs. People now can control their schedule and time. For them, working at nighttime is their day time to us. These are the customers who work on graveyard shift. However, they can't go to malls during regular hours and are only free when it’s closed. They just can't visit the malls anytime they want.

These traditional malls are only visited during the time when they don't have work. This is clearly harder for people who work on different time schedule. Now that online shopping is rising, it's good for these kinds of customers who have a weird schedule. Most offline business is now being made available to online as well. Surprisingly, this only occurred since last year in the country. I strongly believe it happened when Lazada Online Mall arrived in the country. Lazada is one of the first online malls in the country to serve our local online users. Some South East Asia countries also have it on their country. After they arrived in the country, Ecommerce immediately grew exponentially. The local online scene was never the same again after they arrived. Since the competition is lesser compared to other country, it's only natural to have it launched in the country.

Their challenge is how they will lure Internet users to visit their online mall. It was hard for them to lure people since online payment is a trouble for most online users. What makes it difficult for them is that their credit card and personal information are exposed online. The majority of the population here in the country doesn’t even have their own credit cards. This is why Ecommerce never took off early since customers have limited payment options. It doesn't mean that the local Internet users are unaware of online transactions. We don't give online malls a second chance since we consider risk and disregard reward right away.

It is pretty clear that we don't trust online stores right away. For us, all online malls are just put up to scam local Internet users. These combinations can easily tell to investors that it will be hard to penetrate the local market. The Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall came out with something to solve these Ecommerce woes that plagued the country for so long. They are one of the first online stores to offer Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. as an alternative payment method. Unlike other online malls, this won't require customers to pay right away.