This document compares customer satisfaction between boutiques and online shopping. A survey found that customers are more satisfied with boutiques despite higher prices, because boutiques allow customers to physically examine products. Boutiques are improving their online presence to attract more customers. While online shopping provides deals and variety, customers are dissatisfied with the inability to see products in person before purchasing.
2. INTRODUCTION
BOUTIQUES FLIPKART
Boutique is small store that sells
stylish clothing or accessories
designed by the designers which
are trendy.
Dress can be easily altered to give
the best fir to the customer
Online shopping is usually called
as electronic commerce which
allows consumers to directly buy
from sellers.
It has large variety of brands in a
single website.
3. When we take online shopping it has become an important part of business, Even
boutiques are nowadays improving their technology and bringing up new ideas and are
creating new apps for their business because people are moving towards technology
growth and people need new techniques of attracting them into retail stores.
Main motive of business is customer satisfaction other than profit.
In online shopping when we take dresses, the rate may be less with lots of offers
(discounts, free delivery charge etc).Though online shopping have increased rapidly as
compared to boutiques.
4. One of the fast growing phenomenon's is online shopping but side by side the
customers enjoy the technological growth but are not satisfied with the service of the
online shopping.
Boutiques are the place where we can able to see clothes rather than online
shopping because online shopping is done with picture displays, we believe what is
shown in the picture rather than the quality and price.
5. MOKSHAA
ONE - STOP DESTINATION FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Mokshaa is located in cathedral road, opposite Stella Maris College, Chennai and
this boutique has e-commerce website that make the collection available to wide
range of customers.
This boutique mainly focuses on ceremony to weddings. It has wide range of
clothes for bride, groom and all the family members. It has built its reputation for
their stylish and trendy collection for both men and women. It is a blend of tradition
and trend.
6. Mokshaa has wonderful collection of outfits like lehengas, sarees for women
and sherwani, indo western for men and beautiful dresses for kids as well.
Uniqueness of boutiques is that they modify their own designs according to
customers satisfaction.
It focuses on both men and women and it customs the dresses for the bride
and groom accordingly with style quotient of picturesque of ladies. It has wide
collection that is affordable day to day casual outfits according to the taste and
preference of the customers.
7. DELIVERY,RETURN AND PRIVATE POLICY
Delivery is also done in this boutique the customer have to give full detail of their
address as they give in any online shopping websites but week days are off due to
logistics partners as they do not pick up the packages on those days.
Customer can track the details by signing into website by username and
password.
The return policy quite disappointing because the material is checked thoroughly
before giving in to customers and thus it is not been exchanged but incase the
dress has some printing or stitching mistake then the exchange can be done.
The privacy policy is best because it is very secure and protected. They collect
minor information that include name, address etc and doesnt collect sensitive
information.
8. FLIPKART
Flipkarts main aim is to cover all the metro and urban areas.
This site has made the avail of the products in both metro and
remotes areas of India with best brands and low prices.
Present lifestyle of people are attracted towards this online shopping
thus, this online shopping brings wide variety of electronic gadgets,
clothes, jewels, bags, cosmetics etc.
This websites has wide variety of products with different brands,
people can sit in their home and can see huge collection of products
and place an order and the delivery charges are unbeatable.
9. RETURN POLICY
The return policy differs from product to product. Usually the
electronic gadgets for example, you have purchased a mobile
(Redmi note 5) and this gadget has some damage in it during the
delivery of the product, then the product can be returned and new
mobile is given.
It applies same on the dresses because usually the colors of the
dresses differ from brand to brand, thus these returning of things
are only for certain days and when the customers exceed the
particular period of date they cannot return the products.
10. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The research methodology is based on primary and secondary
data. The primary data was collected through questionnaire and
the secondary data was collected through Oral Conversation with
the companies.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To compare customer satisfaction on boutiques and online
shopping
11. IS IT IMPORTANT FOR THE BOUTIQUES TO HAVE ONLINE
SHOPPING FACILITY
BOUTIQUES NUMBERS PERCENTAGE
YES 33 61.1%
NO 4 7.4%
MAYBE 17 31.5%
13. MODE OF PAYMENTS
PAYMENT NUMBERS PERCENTAGE
ONLINE 3 5.6%
CASH ON DELIVERY 42 77.8%
INTERNET BANKING 5 9.3%
CREDIT CARD 4 7.4%
DEBIT CARD 8 14.8%
14. INTREPRETATION:
Most of the customers have opted for cash on delivery. This states
that customers want to check the material before paying the
money.
15. OVERALL SATISFACTION LEVEL OF
CUSTOMERS IN ONLINE AND BOUTIQUES
SATISFACTION
LEVEL
ONLINE SHOPPING BOUTIQUES
HIGHLY
DISSATISFIED
3 6
DISSATISFIED 5 3
AVERAGE 21 23
SATISFIED 19 13
HIGHLY SATISFIED 2 5
17. CALCULATION OF CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
SATISFACTION
LEVEL
X (X-10)
X
x族 Y (Y-10)
Y
y族 xy
HIGHLY DISSATISFIED 3 -7 49 6 -4 16 28
DISSATISFIED 5 -5 25 3 -7 49 35
AVERAGE 21 11 121 23 13 169 143
SATISFIED 19 9 81 13 3 9 27
HIGHLY SATISFIED 2 -8 64 5 -5 25 40
TOTAL 裡X=50 裡x=0 裡x族=340 裡Y=50 裡y=0 裡y族=268 裡xy=273
18. r = 5(273) - (0) (0) / 5(340)-(0)族 5(268)-(0)族
r = 1365 / 1700 1340
r = 1365 / (41.23) (36.61)
r = 1365 / 1509.4303
r = + 0.9043
INTREPRETATION:
Since the correlation is positive + 0.9043, customer satisfies
more on boutiques rather than online shopping.
19. FINDINGS
In this study it reveals that customer who shop online are
not satisfied with the online stores as compared to boutiques.
Many respondents are attracted towards the boutiques and
its websites because the quality of the materials are better
compared to online shopping.
It is found that in spite of Higher prices in boutiques
compared to online stores, the customers are better satisfied
in boutiques as they can physically examine the product.
20. CONCLUSION
The study reveals that, the customers are not satisfied
with online shops. Though the price is low and there
is large variety of brands avail, online shopping misses
out on the Physical touch and feel of the product.