Advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce

Advantages: openness and globality; Improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises; It reduces intermediate links and changes the operation mode of the whole social economy; Benign interaction; Reduce costs and manpower; Efficiency has improved.

Disadvantages: poor security; Legal and regulatory issues; The search function is not perfect; When shopping online, a big problem users face is how to find what they want in many websites and buy it at the lowest price.

E-commerce electronizes and digitizes traditional business processes. On the one hand, replacing physical logistics with electronic flow can greatly reduce manpower and material resources and reduce costs; On the other hand, it breaks through the limitation of time and space, so that trading activities can be carried out at any time and any place, thus greatly improving efficiency.

Extended data:

Advantages, policy dividend window period; The demand potential of users is huge; The industry needs to be improved; Driven by capital, players from all walks of life compete with each other.

Due to the improvement of cognition, the market has grown. Cross-border online shopping accounted for only 15.3% of online shopping users in China in 20 14 years, and there is still much room for development. From the consumer's point of view, some Haitao people are the mother army after 80' s and 90' s, and they have cultivated the consumption habits of sea purchase from the maternal and child field.

The other part is returnees and people with overseas travel and shopping experience. In addition to their own needs, but also radiation to the surrounding relatives and friends gradually accept cheap foreign brands. Now when it comes to Haitao, consumers can't immediately think of a suitable buying platform. The demand level should be fidelity, richness, low price and fast logistics. It depends on who can meet these needs the fastest, and form a brand effect to occupy consumers' consciousness first.

Disadvantages: you can't really feel and experience it, you can't feel its texture and material, offline is cash on delivery, and it remains to be seen whether online payment is safe.

Industry reshuffle will start with the participation of powerful players and price war. Small-scale e-commerce will transform differentiated competition, and startups with core competitiveness will survive and gain a foothold in this large enough incremental market.

References:

Baidu e-commerce encyclopedia