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More people are shopping online
The popularity of online shopping keeps increasing in Slovakia. And while the overall sales value of online purchases did not change much last year due to the economic crisis, less spending money inspired many more people to search for better prices on the internet to the detriment of brick-and-mortar shops.
"In fact, 2009 was good for online shopping and, surprisingly, the crisis has been helping it a bit," Jozef Dvorský, the executive director of the Slovak Association of Electronic Commerce (SAEC) told The Slovak Spectator. "The aggregate turnover of our members increased by only 0.9 percent but the number of orders soared by as much as 29.2 percent to 402,397. This means that customers were buying less overall, which was an outcome of the crisis, but more people went to online shops because of lower prices compared to brick-and-mortar stores."
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"In fact, 2009 was good for online shopping and, surprisingly, the crisis has been helping it a bit," Jozef Dvorský, the executive director of the Slovak Association of Electronic Commerce (SAEC) told The Slovak Spectator. "The aggregate turnover of our members increased by only 0.9 percent but the number of orders soared by as much as 29.2 percent to 402,397. This means that customers were buying less overall, which was an outcome of the crisis, but more people went to online shops because of lower prices compared to brick-and-mortar stores."
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what site did you see this pool table as I am in Bugaria and on the look out for one? And how easy was it?
Of the last 100 major items I have purchased 83 have been online and ALL 83 have been outside Bulgaria and delivered to Bulgaria and STILL cheaper. Example: Pool Table 1000lvs in Bulgaria, buy from Germany delivered to Bulgaria 560lvs, IPhone in Bulgaria 1300lvs, buy from China direct 400lvs. Not only has Bulgaria to wake up to the online shopping boom, it has to also realise that online shoppers can also price and buy cheaper outside Bulgaria...That will be the interesting part.