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Offline is still king. In naija people are not yet comfy about online shopping

kirkwood:
Offline is the best. I can remember buying online from Chicken Republic and they cheated the hell out me.

buying goods online is not different from online pool

Benscolari:
#what is this stupid anomaly for?
You've been going to every section to correct peoples tenses and all what not.
Does English look like our native bilingual language?
Is this how jobless you are?
You'd better channel your energy into doing something productive, than partake in nefarious and meaningless grammar check.
Grammar check my black as$

Don't be a mentally lazy youth.

If you cannot write in good English, then why don't you write in your so called native bilingual language?

Sadly, I'm sure you can't even write in your so called native bilingual language correctly.

One way to easily discover idiots is to watch out for how such people react to corrections.

If you correct an intelligent person, s/he will take the correction and even thank you for enlightening him or her.

But if you correct a fool, s/he will get defensive immediately and start trying to either disprove you even when it obvious that s/he is in the wrong or start attacking you by the way of letting you know that you're not in the position to be making that correction.

I don't just know why and how we ended up having so many fools in this part of the world.

Nonsense.

Can you price products online

Wrong analysis.
There is nothing like an online store.
You are either dropshipping, or you have a store you are marketing your wares online.

Jumia is a shop online, not an online shop.

Depends

I believe it’s the traffic stores

hjnk

Ruhamah23:
Can you price products online

Yes you can on ebay...

When a whole enterprise infrastructure can be provisioned online as a code, it's a no brainer.

The overhead is killing the physical stores...they have to pay rent, staff, utilities and insurance. If you can host your online store on the cloud, you only pay as you go.

Benscolari:
#what is this stupid anomaly for?
You've been going to every section to correct peoples tenses and all what not.
Does English look like our native bilingual language?
Is this how jobless you are?
You'd better channel your energy into doing something productive, than partake in nefarious and meaningless grammar check.
Grammar check my black as$

Haba! Take it easy naa. Life is not too serious like that. I like the way he focuses on the grammar when everyone else is focusing on something else in the story. If there was no GrammarNazi1, I'd ask that we create one.

The article is informative but I think something needs to be specified to appropriate individual views. Opinions would have been expressed based on the perspective of a producer/supplier and/or that of the consumer/demander. The consumer may say, "online shopping is convenient for me but I'm not willing to risk being served with fake products or low quality service owing to integrity issues of online stores. Thus, I prefer to physical stores."
A supplier may want to avoid the overheads of rent, workforce, power, risk of being burgled and so on, but still go on to see challenges with distribution, keen competition, data charges, and some other huge costs.
So I think the choice is subjective based on individuals' position in the value chain.

pinkApril:
well I dunno who is winning..... all I know is that I had to close my offline store to go into online business cos I could no longer afford the rent.
now I have 6 staffs I pay 30k monthly... no tax,no shop rent and I have enough time to spend with family and love ones....

Jaminsi.

nice article online is winning

It depends tho hia in uae online is the best

JuanDeDios:

Haba! Take it easy naa. Life is not too serious like that. I like the way he focuses on the grammar when everyone else is focusing on something else in the story. If there was no GrammarNazi1, I'd ask that we create one.

#Only unproductive people engage in such meaningless frivolity.
He doesn't have a life outside nairaland

Even the online stores still depend on the offline stores, offline stores are the vendors. Increasing visibility is the essence of being a vendor.

Josh44s:


Look at this f00l. Which online business? Online businesses is a sham in Nigeria due to highcost of internet access in Nigeria. Change the nature of your job my friend.

You are so ignorant. If you had said that online business is hard in Nigeria because buying training courses or materials is costly in Nigeria because of the high dollar rate, I would have agreed with you. But saying that the high cost of internet is an impediment to online business means you are so ignorant. Change your circle. Well, I don't know what you mean by online business.

If your business is not online in this century, it's either you only service locals and sell small...

Also you can start dropshipping from AliExpress and sell to any part of the world.

See my signature to start or send a WhatsApp message to 090 50033 743

dominique:
Offline in this part of the world

For now, maybe. It will change in 10 years or less.

kirkwood:
Offline is the best. I can remember buying online from Chicken Republic and they cheated the hell out me.

Why buy chicken online?



The best items to buy online are brand new electronic products and phones.Same risk( for the buyer)with offline.

check out phonemart.com.ng

Online store is better if you have control of your customers. That's if your customers contact you directly and not through third parties like Jumia. Jumia reaps off their vendors and Jumia even have their own stores on that same Jumia platform. They monitor high selling products from individual stores and add them to their store. Then they reduce the price of that same product and entice buyers with free shipping. They bring in vendors, steal their high selling products, add to their store and discourage the vendor with penalties and volume limitations. Sometimes, they penalize the vendor for no reason and call it software issues. After a while, they drop your score, which should reflect your performance and boost reputation. They use your money to trade, even give loans and pay the vendor when they dim it fit. I advise you strive to have your own presence online and not through third party. This will help you build your personal customer base which Jumia can never give you.

Ruhamah23:
Can you price products online

Yes on Alibaba.

Having a business that's not online is like having a phone without simcard...

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For the ladies, 'cizzle_store' on IG is where you would love be.
They are very legit.

Abbeyme:
Here is it!

Click LIKE for Online.

Click SHARE for offline.

Let the WAR start!

Sharap there, you freak! How many likes have you gotten?

Benscolari:
#Only unproductive people engage in such meaningless frivolity.
He doesn't have a life outside nairaland

...Nairaland.

Benscolari:
#Only unproductive people engage in such meaningless frivolity.
He doesn't have a life outside nairaland

...Nairaland.

JuanDeDios

troubleseller:
The guys' moniker is GrammarNazi1. What do you expect?

Some people are far less intelligent than they think they really are. The guy you quoted is a perfect example.