The popularity of online shopping can be witnessed when you find that out of the top 100 popular websites ranked by alexa enlists two shopping sites rediff and India times and that too at a much higher rung. If the people of a developing country like India can generate such a huge hit in these sites, then what happens to the shopping portals of the western world?
The survey figures are also equally interesting where more than 9% of the people belonging to the metro cities visit online shopping portals and use the online shopping on a regular basis.
We should not forget that plenty of shopping malls with ultra modern facilities and environment have emerged in most of the metro cities of India in the recent past. Even after so many shopping malls, if the Internet can attract them, then the credit goes to the Internet regime, which has stepped into every facets of our daily lives.
In reality some people even shy of online shopping sites as most of them fear to publish their credit card information over the Internet and they still feel unsecured about the privacy and confidentiality of their valuable data. Any way, the new dimension has already started in the shopping needs of the people.
