E-stores and Facebook pages have brought relief to her lifeHaggling over prices, traffic congestion, the insane summer heat, and overcrowded markets and shopping malls, are what have kept Mounita away from in-store Eid shopping this year. And of course, the Dhaka traffic and heat are also there. She continued: “Besides, getting stuck in traffic in the scorching heat only to buy one or two items is not really worth the hassle. Currently, there are two thousand e-commerce websites and around 50 thousand Facebook business pages are operated in Bangladesh, he said. She said most customers do not want to visit physical stores anymore as online shopping is booming.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 01, 2019 17:48 UTC