Shopping: Past, Present And Future.

Everyone loves to shop. It's the ultimate stress buster. For some people, shopping is like a habit. It's like they can't even survive if they don't go shopping every week. Habit or not, shopping plays a very important role in people's lives. People want the best things to buy and sellers want to offer them things as per their requirements. As we notice, shopping has changed over a period of time. Its ways and methods differ from as it was 5 years ago.

Past:

In past, a traditional way of shopping was followed. Just going to market, shops or fleats and buying stuff. Hopping from one shop to another. Physically examining the products. This is the kind of shopping method which our ancestors used. It's one of the simplest and most satisfying methods of shopping.

Shopping in the past was physical. Customer and seller met face to face and products were trusted only when the customer was satisfied with its physical examination.

• Merits

1) Face to face interaction of buyer and seller generates more trust and balance between them.

2) The customer can examine the goods by actually touching them.
3) This leads to a perfect choice and fewer chances of cheating.
4) One could get knowledge about other substitute products related to their product.
5) The increment of choices.

• Demerits

1) Time-consuming
2) Maybe costly
3) Exhausting

Present:

Today, shopping has entered into a new phase. It's a new generation of shopping evolving which aims at making shopping convenient, easy and just one click aways. Nowadays, e-commerce companies are moving towards making their own mobile-friendly applications as most of the population today uses mobile phones. Companies like, uber eats and old deal with specific services. Then there is Amazon, the biggest online store.

Today shopping is just one click away, as it's been awarded a new platform. This platform is 'Internet''.

Online or e-commerce businesses have taken the market very close to consumers. Today a person sitting in his home can shop without actually getting out of the house. This has dragged down physical stores a few steps down. This method of shopping is new, hence it still has to capture remote areas. Plus, the knowledge necessary for making online payments or even ordering properly is still to be spread to the major population.

• Merits

1) Comforting
2) Less costly
3) time-saving
4) Variety
5) Cashless(other than CoD)

• Demerits

1) Lack of trust
2) The probability of receiving a damaged product piece.
3) No quality check
4) No immediate receipt of the product.

Future:

As judged by the resent scenario, the future of shopping can be predicted as more online. each and everything would be available online. There would be a phase where the physical stores could be found rarely.

The future is near. Now each and every need would be satisfied by 'Just one click.'

So, in this way shopping is changing its phase every now and then. According to my opinion, physical shopping is more fun but with the point of view of convenience, e-commerce is the boss. Time is changing and so thus shopping ways.