Consumer Buying Behavioral Shift From Offline Shopping To Online Shopping During This Ramadan 2022

    DUBAI, UAE, April 07, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The major shift in the buying pattern of consumers can be seen in the second phase of covid-19 as they started to grab the situation and has shifted from offline shopping to online shopping.
70-80% Of the relail stores are affected with zero in store shopping.

UAE, being one of the major shopping hub across has already in the top of the list of countries that behold the e commerce tag, but this time it has surpassed the penetration rate of users by 90% as compared to that in UK.

The Major categories which are sold are Medical gear, Health and Beauty products, Nutrition based products and Food and beverages.

Hence there is a shift in terms of arranging the products and category in an e commerce portal as they have introduced a different section for Covid-19 essential category, and as per the traffic is concern most of the traffic are on these essential related products and daily usable items.

Offices and educational sectors are all closed as most of them have started to do work from home so there is a tremendous increase in the sale Home & Furniture category and apart from that home Improvement products has shown around 60-70% Of the sale during the period of second and third phase of Covid-19.

Dragonmart, being one of the leading online marketplace in Dubai has contributed a lot during the harsh time of this covid phase and there are many other online marketplaces like Noon etc has started huge discounted campaigns on most of the products and category especially those which has mostly sold during the phase.

Many of the Offline sellers or retailers are listing there products and category to these online marketplaces in order to start selling online and be in the market.

Dragonmart like amazon has started its online registration campaign for sellers so that they can register with the company to get their product listed and likewise they have listed to many other online marketplace as well.

The data shows that most of the users are online in search for the online shopping marketplaces and these users and mostly Gen-z and Gen-Y as they are the frequent buyers in the online e commerce website in UAE scenario. But we can see that there is a boost in the baby boomers and Gen-x as well.

So we can see there is a behavioral shift in the buying pattern as well and the factors that caused to it are :

1. Sudden Pandemic
2. Online marketing trend/ Smart marketing trends
3. Consumer buying shift trends
4. Technological advancements
5. go getter with the faster corporate world

But there are still many retail stores running as well side by side with their online stores as most of the consumers have the habit of going out for shopping and thats what everybody finds a normal way of living

so hoping that after this Covid-19 there will be the time when both shops online and offline will run simultaneously and thus brings a variety of products and category at consumers plate.

Dragonmart, is a shopping complex in Dubai and is known for its wide range of products and category with a large discounted prices on those products and category. It has more that 35000 stores and with almost every products are of high end brands available in the market.

Dragonmart has started its website in 2016 and has almost 70,000 Products available with growing categories as they have the huge seller base.

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