Mr Rasaq Ajani, Chief Executive Officer, Delivery Naija, an online marketplace, says the expansion of e-commerce industry is gradually reducing shopping from physical stores across Nigeria.
Ajani told newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos that the e-commerce market had over the last two years undergone revolutionary changes.
He noted that most consumers were getting more and more accustomed to buying items from the comfort of their homes, adding that the change was spurred due to the pandemic.
“During the pandemic, most businesses who had no online retail stores were at a great loss because most consumers were ordering for goods on e-commerce platforms.
“The restrictions during the pandemic has changed consumer behavior and propelled the e-commerce industry forward.
“This shift in shopping behavior is gradually threatening the existence of physical stores,” he said.
Ajani said that DeliveryNaija was an e-commerce marketplace where consumers could shop for various items ranging from food items to electronics from different vendors across the country.
The chief executive officer noted that the online shopping mall, which was recently established in December 2021, was a better version of the popular ones.
He noted that unlike other e-commerce platforms, Delivery Naija gave visibility to its vendors by ensuring that each vendor had a URL link (Uniform Resource Locator) upon registration on the website.
Ajani said that with the URL link the buyer could go straight to the vendors website by clicking on the item he or she wants to buy.
He said that unlike other e-commerce companies where vendors had to take their goods to the company before they made sales, Deliverynaija allowed sellers to deliver directly to their customers who made orders via the platform.
Ajani added that there was transaction safety for both vendors and sellers as all payments were handled by Paystack, the platform’s official payment gateway partner.
“Domiciled in Lagos, we are open to all and sundry as our services cut across the entire continent of Africa and beyond.
” We understand that the best of ideas still loses force of attraction if it lacks the required visibility, armed with this fact, we are poised to offering vendors the exposure required for their products and services.
(NAN)