{"id":10281,"date":"2020-12-17T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2020\/12\/17\/covid-business-booms-for-hong-kong-online-flower-shops-this-christmas\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:30:00","slug":"covid-business-booms-for-hong-kong-online-flower-shops-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2020\/12\/17\/covid-business-booms-for-hong-kong-online-flower-shops-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Business Booms For Hong Kong Online Flower Shops This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 17 December<br \/>\n2020 -The pandemic has made online florist sales boom in 2020. With social<br \/>\ndistancing measures in place, overall sales in physical stores have drastically<br \/>\nplummeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shortly after the pandemic came in full force,<br \/>\nwe projected that our sales would slump to a new low&#8221; says Justin Chung founder<br \/>\nof <a href=\"https:\/\/giftflowers.com.hk\/en\/\">Gift Flowers HK<\/a>. The<br \/>\nintroduction of social distancing rules, employment uncertainty and general<br \/>\neconomic downturn has caused an inevitable perfect storm. Despite having to<br \/>\nface an overwhelming number of hurdles, the e-commerce flower industry has<br \/>\nflourished.<\/p>\n<p>Gift Flowers HK has seen an impressive 100% jump<br \/>\nin Christmas sales and 30% increase in overall sales since the pandemic began.<br \/>\nWith people more inclined to shop online instead of visiting a conventional<br \/>\nflorist, sales have grown signicantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know people would not be travelling this<br \/>\nChristmas so we doubled our purchasing for Christmas trees, wreaths and other<br \/>\nChristmas flower arrangements&#8221; says Justin Chung &#8220;However, we never expected<br \/>\nthat all our Christmas trees would be sold out before December&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many are unable to experience a normal Christmas<br \/>\nthis year as everyone is being advised to &#8220;stay at home&#8221; and<br \/>\n&#8220;work from home&#8221;. This situation has encourage those who would<br \/>\nusually travel to decorate their own homes instead to compensate on missed<br \/>\nfestivals and special occasions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We find that many people have been buying Christmas trees and decorations,<br \/>\nperhaps in the hopes to create more of a holiday ambience at home after<br \/>\nenduring the hardships the pandemic had brought. We had not anticipated that<br \/>\nChristmas trees, in particular, would be sold out almost instantly. Our<br \/>\nChristmas floral arrangements are also being sold more rapidly than previous<br \/>\nyears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has brought about much social and<br \/>\neconomic disruption and many businesses around the globe have to bear the brunt<br \/>\nof declining sales. Yet, serving as one of the companies to have thrived during<br \/>\nthis ordeal, Gift Flowers HK is proof that all hope is not lost in the world of<br \/>\ne-commerce. The positive results showcases fantastic prospects in the market<br \/>\nfor many and paves new pathways for budding businesses to take amidst the<br \/>\ncrisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giftflowers.com.hk\/en\/\">https:\/\/giftflowers.com.hk\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/58709#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 17 December 2020 -The pandemic has made online florist sales boom in 2020. With social distancing measures in place, overall sales in physical stores have drastically plummeted. &#8220;Shortly after the pandemic came in full force, we projected that our sales would slump to a new low&#8221; says Justin Chung founder &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}