Sunday, December 2, 2012

ONLINE GROCERY STORES IN INDIA



Online Grocery Stores In India

An online grocery store is a grocery store that allows private individuals and businesses to purchase groceries and grocery products online. They follow today’s emerging concept: ONLINE GROCERS: MOVING THE GROCERY STORE INTO THE HOME, proving that no sector of the retail market can stay untouched by the online shopping phenomenon. It is now possible for the humble and even unknown grocery store to become digitized and available on your smartphone, tablet or computer.
            Consider this scenario: No more collecting a mobile trolley or the smaller hand-held tray; no more long checkout lines; counting your items to see if you qualify for the Express Lane; forgetting your grocery list at home or carting your heavy grocery-laden bags up the steps or stairways. Happiness personified!!! Online grocery shopping is dramatically changing the consumer’s relationship with the food market and making a service that they have earlier felt was a luxury into an everyday convenience.
            There are many benefits that online grocery shopping bestows upon the consumer, starting with convenience. All big cities have such stores, i.e., this facility is not confined to Metros only; they are catching up with online grocery stores in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, etc. One can quickly search for the products needed and order them without having to walk down expensive and expansive aisles laden with varieties and sub-varieties of what you need. The time and expense of going physically to the grocery store has been done away with, ordering can be done from remote locations and in the midst of whatever work one was involved in, or during lunch and tea breaks. Those who do not have cars are happily placed since the order can be delivered at the doorstep.           
Perhaps the greatest drawback with online shopping is the fact that one will have to pay extra as delivery charges and wait a while for delivery. Moreover, shopping in brick and mortar stores can also be a social event of sorts as friends shop together and sit and chat at the ubiquitous coffee shop.            
One can browse through various sites, search for, select and buy all types of branded food items online at best prices. Mothers of small children are equally benefited. They just have to get to the baby food page and order what they want for their babies. All this due to one globe-changing development: the Internet.