Revolution of Retail Therapy

The emergence of internet shopping has become a new form of retail therapy for city-dwellers! Having to juggle between school and work, i feel that the e-shopping has brought great convenience in my life, well, simply because its UBIQUITOUS! i can even shop at 12am when most offline shops would be closed for the day.

Also, such shops gain greater exposure. That is, anyone on the globe could be a potential buyer as long as he/she has internet access. The traffic level of these online stores are also generally higher!

Here's a few of my favourite online stores.

Retail shops branching out into online sale.


forever21.com


topshop.com

and of course, blogshopping!













love and bravery is a singapore based blogshop that provides international shipping.



The modparade started out using the livejournal domain and eventually progressed and finally getting a stand-alone domain @ modparade.com. A fine example of how a successful a blogshop can be. modparade even has a store at haji lane!




These online stores are generally easier to manage! firstly, getting a livejournal or blogger domain is free, on the other hand, the offline counterparts have to pay a hefty rental fee. In addition, the seller can design and customise the blogshop for free or at a minimal price, yet, doing up a proper retail shop can be costly.

However, i feel that such online shops lack interactivity. after all, the rate of responding to an email to much slower and personal than face to face. this is one of the main reasons that keep me away from shopping online.