Go Online, Go Local – A Closer Look into the Business

Posted by Venkatesh Nayak
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Aug 31, 2015
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In the last decade, Bangalore has seen rapid growth in its economy and the city homes over 3000 migrants each day. With IT in its prime and increasing number of foreign direct investments, the job opportunities that Bangalore offers attracts waves of skilled and unskilled labours.  As the city grows, it evolves, people evolve, their lifestyles evolve and so do their shopping behaviours.

Bangalore moves at a very fast pace, this rises need for quick and efficient services. In urban capitals such as Bangalore, technology penetration is very high and use of smartphones and online services is only rising each day. So, what does today’s Bangalorean want? The question is not just what, but rather in what time does he/she want it. Taking the process of online ordering and making it highly concentrated to proximity is the next wave of online shopping.

What does this mean? Instead of ordering a product from another part of the city or state and waiting for it to arrive, wouldn’t you rather just order the same product from a store in your proximity and have it delivered at your doorstep in a few minutes? Local Online Shopping is the new wave of online shopping business. This is not only promises super-quick delivery and trust of the local shop, but also helps SME’s take their inventory online and stay in sync with this ever-evolving digital world. If you are a local grocery store, local restaurants, local pharmacy store or a local electronic store owner with free services like HappyShoppings.in, you can now take your entire inventory online for free. This will help you reach out to the larger online shoppers residing in your area of function. Basically, HappyShoppings will take your entire store online, direct relevant audience, help you manage your stock and shop and hence, increase your revenue.

HappyShoppings.in the newest entrant in its category, but soon after its launch it has turned-heads in its sector. Taking it step-by-step, HappyShoppings.in has taken localized online grocery shopping as its first step and soon plans to extend their online local services to food & restaurant, electronics, stationery & books, pharmacy & health, and home decor & lifestyle sectors. Merely In a month of the launch HappyShoppings.in was able to sign-up over 100 local grocery shops spread over  prime residential and commercial localities in Bangalore like, Indiranagar, Koramangala, Whitefield, Jayanagar, BTM layout and more. Now these 100 local shops will be able to compete with their bigger counter-parts and will be exposed to a much larger audience online.

With rising young and out of state population, services like HappyShoppings.in have hit the sweet spot of the shoppers needs, no longer will shoppers have to order items online and wait many hours to get them delivered, with this service shoppers are sure to get their items within minutes of placing the order. Also the fact that the shop is located in proximity of the shoppers, there is a huge add-on trust factor which will play an important role in the shoppers repeat ordering frequency.

For shop owners this is a zero investment service which will also help them manage commerce of their existing traditional store and help them evolve and match up to the level of several localized online shopping service providers and supermarkets. Happyshoppings.in has taken this bold step to help local shops and stores go online and drive users towards these localized shops adding a whole new level of excitement to the growing world of online grocery and product shopping.

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