The e-commerce sector experienced rapid expansion during the coronavirus pandemic but the scene changed at the beginning of this year when news of corruption and irregularities of different online platforms started to surface. People started moving away from these platforms and the number of transactions in e-commerce through cards declined by 42% from Tk 1,277 crore in June to Tk 742 crore in July.

In Straight from Star Newsroom, Khondoker Md Shoyeb is Joined by Mahmudul Hasan to discuss the reasons for the decline in e-commerce and how it could have been avoided.