To prevent corona virus COVID-19 from spreading, Government of Nepal has take serious action by announcing Lockdown. Lockdown has directly affected the daily lives of people in Nepal. People have been stuck in their homes. In this situation people are facing difficulties finding daily product and groceries.
In these pandemic situation supplies of daily essentials has been a major concern of people after lockdown. Different stores (like Bhatbhateni, Salesberry, Sastodeal, Daraz (with Big Mart, kirana, Foodmandu, Thulo.com etc) have decided to return up and supply home service to the people.Online Shopping helps to promote self quarantine and reduce the flow of people on the streets.Before this lockdown few e-commerce sites carried out home delivery. Nepal Government has never felt the need of online shopping site before the corona virus pandemic. The online shopping can do so much during corona virus pandemic. The economy of online stores like SastoDeal, Daraz, Muncha, Aliexpress Nepal had almost doubled in the week prior to the lockdown on 24th March.
In this period, getting out of your home and buying medicines, groceries and other daily product is quite risky. Only Online Shopping seems to be the safe option in the Covid-19 pandemic. But Nepali people are unused to online shopping and online payment is still so confusing for many of us.
Online Payment
As most of the Nepali people have no idea about the online payment. For the people who don’t know about online payment, there are different online stores which do cash on delivery. Are you confused about the safety during online payment? Cash on delivery is also the biggest safety loophole. In Nepal there are very few digital wallets and portals to use for the people who can do online payment. eSewa, Khalti, IME Pay are easy to use and popular platform to use. But among them eSewa is the biggest and the most popular online payment platform in Nepal.
Is it safe for online delivery?
When we are shopping online, we don’t have to go to the market. That way we can help to stop virus spread. But is online shopping safe? The delivery guy takes cash on delivery which can be risky. Aslo we don’t know if they have taken required safety measures. People are also concerned during physical delivery of the items to buy online. The delivery guy might have touched millions of viruses on the way.
Precautions for online shopping
In this situation precautions and safety should be the first priority. Firstly you need to check if the delivery guy on the doorstep is wearing mask and gloves or not. We also recommend customers to receive the goods wearing mask and gloves for their own safety. If possible you should maintain distance from the delivery guy while receiving the goods. Though Cash on Delivery is the biggest loophole but you can use online payment platforms to avoid the exchange of money physically. As money also contain thousands of viruses. Online Payment is easy and safe way to perform money transactions while social distancing.
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