Bangladesh, May 18 -- The number of visitors and purchase orders on the country's online marketplaces has risen significantly in recent days centring the Eid-ul-Fitr, insiders say.

They said the handling of e-commerce and virtual shops on the social media sites like Facebook (F-commerce) has spiked by an average 50 per cent customers, compared with the usual period.

Browsing the web pages, this correspondent found different types of attractive posts to attract buyers' attention with offers such as cash back, gift vouchers, bonus, free gift and raffle draw.

Senior executives of such digital commerce told the FE they have taken all-out preparations by increasing product stocks and the number of merchant partners.

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