4 New Google Maps Features For Local Shopping
There’s nothing like local shopping; you’d agree to that when you understand how shopping local helps you make a thoughtful purchase. When you’re online, you buy on impulse, getting easily deceived by beautiful imagery and fancy language. But, when you’re buying local, you touch, you feel, you think, and then you decide. This way, you buy quality. Google, even though an online platform, embraces your thoughts about purchasing offline, which is why it brings four special new features to improve your local shopping experience. In this way, it not only helps you as a customer but by offering a fine customer experience, it also helps businesses increase sales. Let’s take a look at these 4 new features.
Grocery shopping
You can now order groceries for pickup on Google Maps! You can place an order for groceries from your preferred store, and Google Maps will track the order status, allowing you to share your ETA so that the store knows when you will arrive for picking it up. This saves on a significant amount of time.
Area busyness
As the name suggests, this feature speaks about the busyness of an area. Customers can now see how crowded or deserted a particular area is before they get there. This is particularly helpful for those who still want to avoid large crowds after the pandemic scare. Live busyness trends from businesses in close proximity to each other are all combined in this new feature. Google Maps can show you not only the current status of an area, but it can also tell you how busy the place is at different times of the day, and which day it is popularly crowded.
Directory tab
This feature shows you about all the stores in a building, along with helping you locate car rentals, parking lots, and a lot more. So, if you are in a large shopping mall, you can use the Directory Tab to bring to you the list of businesses on each floor, telling you about their star rating, and whether it is open or not at that particular time. Google Maps is expanding this feature on Android and iOS for airports and transit stations too.
More information about restaurants
When customers look up local restaurants, Google Maps can now display a whole lot of information about the eateries. Every detail about the price range, and amenities offered like delivery, curb-side parking, outdoor seating, etc. is all stated along with reviews about a restaurant. All this information being shown in a restaurants’ main listing can make it easy for one to identify what the place is like, and whether he or she would like to dine there.
These four features have certainly made it easier for people to shop, may it be their groceries or about any other stores in a mall, or nearby restaurants; every product or service purchasing is thus made easy. And, if you are a business rather than a customer, you can make your own company’s reputation shine high in the eyes of Google by hiring a digital marketing company in India to help you. This way you can have your business promoted on multiple channels, and shape public perception of your brand by influencing online information, and increasing the visibility of positive opinions. Positivity from the audience for your brand means Google notices you easily! Moreover, you can always strive to rank higher on Google Maps.
