Online shopping opportunity is now available in Bangladesh. Now, Bangladeshis are able to purchase products sitting at home from the online shops. Abroad living people can also send gift to Bangladesh using online shopping.
Now a day, online market is very popular in the world. Peoples purchase products from online to save times. Like the other countries of the world, some online markets or shopping centers are also available in Bangladesh. The competition of this business is increasing day by day as the credit card users are increasing. Many internet users of our country are using the shops to purchase products and to save time and money. Besides, these types of shopping centers of Bangladesh are giving a great benefit to the Bangladeshis who are living in abroad.
This hopefully will be the start of online business revolution for Bangladeshi companies enabling them to keep up with the rest of the world and innovate how they interact with their customers.”
Uttam Nayak in his speech said that e-commerce would not only reduce cost of transaction but also save couple of hours rather than shopping physically.
E-commerce facilitates remote payments which are better than face-to-face payments, he said and adding it will give an opportunity to include more people in banking transaction, one’s who buying goods and other’s who selling goods.
Firoz Ahmed Khan, Head of Retail Banking, while demonstrating the new service features at the launching ceremony said that the new shopping platform would work just any other developed online stores work.
Consumers can browse and choose their products on either the online super-stores or individual shops and then they can add the products to their cards through checking out finally, they simply need to put their details from BBL or Visa card.
Online ticket booking with ones credit card and general retail purchases online have been something many credit card holders have been waiting to be able to do for years while many working Bangladeshis facing problems as the shops are normally closed at 8 pm., he said.
BRAC Bank online shopping is open for 24 hours making it possible for retail products, companies and stores to keep earning long after shopping hours are over, he added.
There are two types of online market available in Bangladesh. They are –
Shopping center: peoples are able to purchase only from these online shops. Products are arranged in some categories. Buyers have to choose from the available products. After completion of the payment, they will deliver the products to the buyers’ home. Only online payment (using credit card or PayPal) is accepted.
Auction center: It is mainly e-commerce type market. Peoples can buy or sell products from here. Some called those as auction center. Sellers post their products here with proper information and price. Buyers choose products and contact with the sellers and bargain. Mainly the online market works as like media centers.
We are proud to say that online shopping centers are increasing day by day in Bangladesh and many peoples are benefited from the shops.
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