How you Save Time and Money with Online Shopping

Oja Express
3 min readApr 28, 2018

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When you hear about online shopping, what comes to your mind? Convenience? Time-Saving? Stress-free?

Online shopping is an excellent time-saving and money-saving mechanism. For instance, as an African woman, if you want to cook ‘Efo Riro’, you can get ALL the ingredients you need to be delivered straight to your doorstep with online shopping. You don’t have to stress it.

We all want to save time and glean all we can from our daily 24 hours. Sometimes the 24 hours always seem not enough because of the many tasks lined up for us to do in a day.

Shopping, cooking, work, cleaning, going on errands, visiting friends, business matters, family matters, and so on, are some of the things some people need to do on a daily basis. Imagine if you had help with a chunk of these? You will save time and money!

As an African man or woman, we might always want to go to the ‘market’ because we are so used to it and not going to the ‘market’ can signify something else. LOL, this shouldn’t be so. We all deserve a stress-free life and we need to free up more time in our daily activities to concentrate on other things.

Source: Huffingtonpost

Online shopping is one of the easiest ways you can save more time and resources. Here’s how:

  1. Avoiding queues: Not all of us like the queues at our favorite grocery store or supermarket. And so, online shopping helps one to evade those queues and get our shopping done easily.
  2. Avoiding the temptation of unnecessary purchases: How many times have you visited a store to get some specific things but you go home with those things and even things you don’t need? Did you know that online shopping helps to avoid that to some extent? This helps you to save your money!
  3. Bulky Items: With online shopping, you can simply purchase bulky items without wondering how you will carry them to your home. The online store will simply help you deliver the items.
  4. Stress-Free: Shopping online is stress-free! All you need to do is sit in your house and shop, then you have those goods delivered to your doorstep with ease.
  5. You shop at your own pace: Online shopping also gives you the opportunity to shop at your own pace; no rush nor fuss!
  6. You save your parking cost: You also do not have to pay for parking or get stressed up about where to park or for how long.
  7. You save your gas cost: You don’t also have to pay for gas as you shop from the comfort of your home.
  8. You navigate the store easier and faster: Through your device, you get to navigate the store and see sections and categories faster and easier.
  9. Easily track prices: You can also easily track prices and get to know about sales and discounts.
  10. Easy to stick to your list: With online shopping, it is also easy to stick to your budget and list!

Do you like online shopping? Let’s hear from you below!

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Oja Express

OjaExpress acts as a marketplace for small grocers that sell cultural specific groceries, while helping immigrants and foodies shop for ethnic groceries!