Online Shopping Alters India Retail Shopping Patterns

By Author: krutha sree
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It's been over ten years since Amazon opened up shop in the US, and just around ten years since its UK affiliate opened. We'll use Amazon as our yardstick for the first truly winning model of retailing over the internet, and how it's impacted retailing in general, and in the UK in particular.

Online selling offers several advantages over traditional "brick and mortar" stores - but also has some interesting side effects and drawbacks (many of which are being addressed by technology). While Amazon wasn't the first - in the UK, it was a men's magazine offering pinups as the first historical case of "Internet commerce". Amazon was the first to have a significant impact on retailing as we know it. Now where we can see the growth in India too.

The major advantages of an online shop are in reduced overhead; you have a web page that displays your products in a shopping cart software solution, rather than having to pay for display space, and employees to man the register. Customers do all the data entry needed to make an order, and your software can be configured to hold that order information for repeat customers.

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... anyone who's run a retail business is aware, the cost per square meter of retail ready space is nearly triple the cost per square meter of warehouse space; even after the initial up front expenditures of creating an online shop, the reduced operating costs should (in theory) make for a more efficient business.

What this has done to brick and mortar businesses has been illustrative of market dynamics at work: Low prices dominate over everything else, and consumes vote with their credit cards. Entire market segments are rapidly shifting to online shopping models, most noticeably in items that are "commodity" products, like books.

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To pull in business, most online retailers employ discounting; bookadda.com is one example of this, with many hardback books priced at 10% to 15% over wholesale, which translates into a cover discount of 30% or more. Other shops, such as overstock.com, take remaindered lots of products and do much the same thing.

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