Online shopping do’s and dont’s
Weekly amazon deliveries? Check! Constantly browsing multiple online stores a day? Check! Planned the complete redecoration of your bedroom and living space?
Check, check, check. I think it’s safe to say that we’ve all been indulging in a bit more shopping activity than before lockdown. Be it for complete necessity as you readjust your bedroom to a suitable working from home space or purchase the new mixer you’ve been needing for your baking.
Regardless of the convictions, it’s important that we don’t use retail therapy as an excuse to make ill-informed purchases. So I’ve come up with a list of all the online shopping tips and tricks to aid all of my retail junkies out there without breaking the bank.
The first quick trick everyone should be privy to is the models and whether the website provides 360 videos or not. This will tell you how an item actually looks on a human body and gives a better understanding of how it will look on you.
In fact, many brands are now using models of varying body shapes to allow the customer to envision themselves in the garment through someone who is shaped similar to the – cheers to the small steps!
The phrase ‘the customer is always right’ springs to mind when it comes to this next tip as I think if and when it’s an available you should always check the reviews of any product that you’re looking to purchase as you’ll get the unfiltered and unedited reviews from the people of the world (review with a pinch of salt).
Lastly our good friends Google also comes to in handy as typing in the name of your desired product into the search engine provides a more extensive range of what can sometimes be exactly the same item at a cheaper price – It’s a win-win.
Despite the amazon deliveries and new homewares being ordered by bulk to houses across the country. It appears that life in quarantine has unleashed a new buyer obsession – purchasing digital skills and tutorials. Yes, I said it, people now more than ever are spending their British pounds on self-development and acquiring new skills to better navigate the digital world we’ve been shoehorned into finessing.
Now, this doesn’t mean that learning new skills has to break the bank as there are lots of free options out there on the net to help you get started, for example, the giffgaff Academy, which has lots of starter videos such as “How to build a website” which some of you fashionistas may wish to do so you launch your personal brand after all that lockdown researching – and practising your digital skillset…New YouTube influencers, being born every day!
Do you have any online shopping do’s and dont’s of your own or have you made any purchases during lockdown that probably weren’t as essential as you may have first thought? Well, we want to know about them!
