Saudi Arabian Shopping Trends Turn To Network

Saudi Arabian consumers traditionally spend a lot of time shopping during the Ramadan and Muslim loyalty Festival. However, due to the low quality and high price of these seasonal products, consumers in Saudi Arabia have begun to turn online and shop online in advance.

According to a Market Research Report by ArabAdvisor sGroup, Saudi Arabia consumers are buying online shopping. In 2008, the amount of online shopping amounted to 12 billion 300 million Saudi dollars (about 3 billion 280 million dollars). In addition, about 3 million 500 thousand (48%) of all Saudi Arabian Internet users purchased goods or services on the Internet, and 41% of online shoppers used credit cards to pay their bills. (sGroup)

The executive director of Sukar.com, the first online shopping club in the Middle East, said that its website has been browsed 2 million 100 thousand times in the past 3 months, and 150 thousand of them have applied for membership.

According to statistics, there are 47% registered users of this website, 31% from Argentina and the rest from other Gulf States (Kuwait, Bahrain, Katar, Oman).