Fashion

Bandra Thrift Shopping Haul

We have visited the city a few hundred times but had never really given it a chance, I had never really experienced the city like it should be experienced. That is, until now, over my last two trips I have come to seriously, obsessively and hopelessly love Mumbai specially South of Mumbai, the architecture, the character, the lanes and the by-lanes all hold  surprises and opportunities to take gorgeous detours and lose oneself in a haze of possibilities.

Mumbai offers something for everyone, the foodie, the shopaholic, the historian, the bollywood buff, the beach bum, the nature lover, the city lover and even for someone like me who likes to sample a bit of everything.

Online vs Traditional 

Shopping is probably one of the oldest terms used to talk about what we have all been doing over the years, if possible, eras. Then again, in ancient times, the terms that would have been used would be ‘trading’ or ‘bartering’ and probably even ‘market.’ So what has traditional shopping have to offer now that the internet has opened up a wider and more enticing market to the current consumers?

ONLINE :

These days, it is even easier to find the most difficult of all products, by easily typing in the product or item that you are looking for. One doesn’t have to worry about location because logistic companies are also joining the bandwagon, so to speak, and helps in making sure that their products would be available to any and all destinations in the world. In fact, there are more and more advantages and benefits to online shopping and why people choose to do this type of shopping over traditional shopping.

Imagine going to a store, think of your favorite store in the nearest mall to where you live. You get into the store, slowly walking from rack to rack, checking out the display, putting a dress over your body and trying to check out your reflection on one of the nearby full-view mirrors that are placed all around the store. You move on to the next display rack, and probably make another selection and do the same thing you did earlier. This is what traditional shopping is about. Having the ability to physically choose and check out what an item or product is like, would look like, and what its features are. This is why some consumers still prefer the traditional type of shopping over online shopping because for one, it allows them to meticulously check out an item.