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Dress and address are the two most important elements of your personality, which leave a lasting impression on others. Having dignified ideas and conveying them with a pristine eloquence is not enough.
You need to look the part as well. The world is a stage and you are an actor.
Dress properly for the act while you deliver your lines to create a profound impact on the audience. Get my point?
However, shopping for a perfect set of apparel is an art in itself.
You may go from one shop to the next and still not be able to find what you are looking for. You need options, which you cannot get from the traditional, physical marketplaces.
They only eat up your time, money, resources, and stores of energy without yielding much satisfaction. They are the past, after all.
Let me welcome you to the future of commerce: online marketplaces. More than 3.95 billion users worldwide use the internet daily, out of which 67% of the millennials shop for their clothing online.
Why? What do the online marketplaces have to offer which the physical ones do not? Let us find out below.
Diversity
I am an avid shopper, so I know the troubles you have to face under the sun while you scour the markets or famous fashion boulevards. Still, you cannot seem to get your hands on a ‘good enough’ variety, and how should you?
The physical marketplaces cannot offer you endless options. They are limited and restricted in a sense.
They ask way too much of the consumers while offering relatively little in return. This is not the case with the online marketplaces, though.
These virtual stores offer infinite variety to the consumers. The shelves keep on updating and expanding. Diversity on the go.
Simultaneity
People do not have time to spare these days. There are far too many things to do. So, if they give their time and attention to one task, it means that they are automatically dropping another one in the process.
For instance, going to markets to buy a perfect wedding dress means that you are giving up editing your presentation, checking up the home security feed, and surfing the social media channels on your reliable home network, as acquired from the awesome Spectrum internet packages.
Multitasking becomes not only a need but also a MUST to survive in this world. Online shopping enables you to do just that.
Simply open the shopping portals on your device and resume your tasks side-by-side. It is as easy as that, and conserves your time, resources, and energy!
Personalization
E-commercial marketplaces have incorporated such a sophisticated ‘smart’ technology, which prioritizes the users and makes the whole shopping experience personalized for them. They frequent Websites that speak the language of the surfers too, thus increasing the chance for higher profits.
However, coming back to the point, with online marketplaces, people have a greater opportunity for customizing their searches to suit their needs. They can simply use the smart search tool to get exactly what they have envisioned.
Especially interesting in this regard is the automated/non-automated chat support, chatbots, and AI chatbots, which aid them along the way and at scale too. You may not be able to do this in a physical marketplace.
Testimonials
I cannot even begin to tell you how much the recommendations and reviews help during shopping. Most of the time, you pick out an item that appeals to you considerably, but then you get those last-minute doubts in your mind and need a guide to push you through the purchasing process.
Another person’s experienced opinion on the same item can clear the clouds in your head and aid you in selection. Lucky for you, online marketplaces are stock-full of customer reviews and testimonials.
You can use them to your advantage and prevent yourself from buying a faulty item.
Deals and discounts
Gone are times when you would find queues upon queues of people outside popular clothing outlets. Most of the users these days—the internet generation—prefer to shop for clothes online instead.
Why? Because virtual brands offer these remarkable ‘short-time’ deals and discounts on smart apparel, which you might not find in physical marketplaces and their so-called ‘clearance sales’.
So, after reading the aforementioned benefits, I hope you would switch to online shopping, and save yourself a thousand troubles, especially in these times of global pandemic.
Contributed by Farhan Suleman, a proficient writer with a strong grip on the concepts of marketing, technology, design, and lifestyle. His articles have been featured on well-renowned sites including Business2Community, The Good Men Project, and Inspiration Feed. In his spare time, he likes to read about the latest trends in the digital industry and play chess.
