{"id":144,"date":"2011-06-25T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonerfromafar.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-07-24T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T09:41:54","slug":"dilemma-online-shopping-or-shopping-day-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/dilemma-online-shopping-or-shopping-day-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilemma: online shopping or shopping day out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please help me here! Do you think that the good, old \u00b4girls shopping day out\u00b4 will still happen\u00a0this much a few years down the line?<\/p>\n

[polldaddy poll=5177362]<\/p>\n

One of the aspects that I enjoy of London is the great variety of products and shops\u00a0that can be found easily.\u00a0\u00a0With the advent of transactional sites online, I wondered if shops might not be struggling in some years to keep a steady in-store flow coming in.<\/p>\n

Transactional sites are here to stay it seems.\u00a0\u00a0Loads of developments are allowing this\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0success: more secure payment,\u00a0the ability to pay using mobile, better\u00a0customer service, quick delivery, wide range available.<\/p>\n

Payment is big thing. Tesco\u00b4s and Sainsbury\u00b4s\u00a0online service is generally quite good in that respect. When I was unable to move around about two years ago, Tesco\u00b4s made my day\"Online<\/a> and more cheaply than Sainsbury\u00b4s. Offers are often quite good. I can buy a lovely dress from Dorothy Perkins site for a fraction of the money that it would cost me in store. In fact, e-commerce is getting a lot stronger this days, and competition<\/a> is fierce. You can expect the online presence of brands and companies on\u00a0different sectors\u00a0becoming stronger over the coming months.<\/p>\n

However, what happens when problems occur? What about other perks of ol\u00b4times shopping?\u00a0For example, windows! Many are bland. Many others are just a creative and innovative artistic and\u00a0promotional\u00a0occurrence.\u00a0I still remember those two Beckham and Posh\u00a0look-alikes\u00a0dramatising what it would be a normal\u00a0morning in the loo for most,\u00a0getting ready to go to work,\u00a0in one of the windows at Selfridges or the small chocolate shop (for real) on one of the corner windows in the same mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It does feel strange, though, writing this knowing that sites like Twitter or Facebook are not allowed in countries like Vietnam, and that people need to hack their ways into those systems to have a bit of global fun.<\/p>\n

Any ideas here?<\/p>\n

A Londoner from Afar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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