E-commerce-Online Shopping(2)

After discussing the advantage of product variety, it is clear that online shop has a great ability to display huge volume products at same time, but the limitation also shows up, shop need to find a proper way to display there products, no misleading information but make their product shine. What attract both consumer and businessman so deeply in this industry? The price plays a key role.The cost of business runner and also the cost for consumer’s buying behavior all affect the price.

Online shopping behavior is smart on cost for both business and consumers. For a new online shop to enter, the preparation is much easier then a retail. The most important thing is to find a great location, the shop’s revenue depends on location heavily. A shop that near the community, CBD or large factory that with stable, large volume crowd will get more profit, but also, with higher cost no matter the business holder choose to rent or buy. It is hard to find a shop location, for alliance business, to start a new Tim Hortons shop, the franchises usually have to wait for one year to find a real good place for business. The cost for searching, having the location and the daily expense is a heavy burden, while for a online shop, the cost for location was to register a domain and find a web host. The decoration fee becomes the web design fee if the designer is asked. A good shop requires change decoration to follow the trend, and also, during the festival, to have some special setting is pivotal. But for online shop, the designer just have to new virtual material.The payment methods, is different between online shop and retail, for online shop, most payment are done through Paypal , Google checkout or other system, that means extra service fee generate. Also, the tax for online shop and retail is different. All those factor makes the cost different.

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E-commerce-Online Shopping(1)

With the development of Internet technology,we enter the new area of E-commerce. Nowadays,  the online shopping is exploding around the world. From the article Online Shopping Trends we know the past, present and future of this new industry.From 1996,the industry is growing gradually with better price, place, product and place. Online shopping provide a way to buy smartly.

Most company provide many kinds of products with variable size, color, style, price to feed different need. That means, each branch must shoulder the pressure to display a huge volume of product. Even the big shop can’t contain all the newest product with their classic one at the same time.Manager have to choose the product everyday. But the online shop can contain all the products at the same time cause they are not limited by the size of shop. The cost to display one more product on online shop is only to add some picture and description.Otherwise, the retail face the risk of sold out, they lack the size or style the consumer want. But usually the online shop connects to their main factory, with the full supply, it is the last one to face the sold out. Since the quality of product is undifferentiated and quantity is not limited by the size of space, online shopping do a better job in providing enough goods for consumer’s need.

Is that means the online shop is doing perfectly on the display of product? No, it facing the problem of over-advertising. The technology such as photo shop, video making help the marketing process that  make  the products looks better so sales better. But  sometimes the product also looks much better than the reality. The consumer facing the risk of color difference, size problem, the misunderstanding of material. The problems will lead to a loss of consumers as they lose the trust to online shopping, even hurt the brand.

 

 

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