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Follow on Google News | Pakistan Shows Potential for Online Retail Sales ExpansionA new report by Hamburg-based B2C E-Commerce intelligence company yStats.com titled “Pakistan B2C E-Commerce Market 2015” finds that online retail is just starting to evolve in Pakistan, but the country has good potential for development.
Surveys have shown that Internet users in Pakistan shop online because it gives them more variety in products and saves time. The majority of online shoppers make their purchases on local sites, while close to a third buy from both local and international sites. Despite global E-Commerce merchants Amazon and eBay not offering direct delivery to Pakistan, these websites are among the most popular in the country as consumers turn to third-party operators to organize import of their orders from these merchants. China-based Alibaba, on the contrary, takes direct advantage of the growing market in Pakistan offering swift and often free delivery to this country from its websites Alibaba.com and Aliexpress.com. Prominent local E-Commerce players include online retailers and marketplace operators such as HSN (Homeshopping.pk) One of the biggest challenges that these merchants have to work with in Pakistan is the underdeveloped online payment infrastructure. Cash remains the most used and the most offered payment method in both online and offline retail, as card penetration is low and electronic payment processing has sparse local offering. Moreover, online retailers have to win over the trust of consumers, as a third of them did not shop online because they found information about products displayed to be insufficient. With these obstacles overcome, Pakistan could become one of the future hotspots of emerging B2C E-Commerce. For further information, see: http://ystats.com/ Press Contact: yStats.com GmbH & Co. KG Behringstrasse 28a, D-22765 Hamburg Phone: +49 (0)40 - 39 90 68 50 Fax: +49 (0)40 - 39 90 68 51 E-Mail: press@ystats.com Internet: www.ystats.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ End
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