What is disadvantages of online shopping

Delay in delivery

• Long duration and lack of proper inventory management result in delays in shipment. Though the duration of selecting, buying and paying for an online product may not take more than 15 minutes; the delivery of the product to customer’ s doorstep takes about 1-3 weeks.

Lack of significant discounts in online shops

• Physical stores claim to give significant discounts when compared to online stores, this is a huge disadvantage for the older generation.

Missing the shopping experience

• The traditional shopping exercise provides a lot of fun in the form of showroom atmosphere e, smart sales attendants, scent and sounds that cannot be experienced through a website. Indians generally enjoy shopping. Consumers look forward to it as an opportunity to go out and shop.

Frauds in online shopping

• Sometimes, there is a disappearance of the shopping site itself. In addition to the above, the online payments are not much secured. The rate of cyber crimes has been increasing and customers’ credit card details and bank details have been misused which raise privacy issues.