In small county towns, many shops are plastered with the names of "this store for rent" and "transfer of empty stores", and some physical stores have become unsustainable and have to close their doors. Some people say that e-commerce has eliminated brick-and-mortar stores, but I have a different opinion.
After I retired, I fell in love with online shopping, just like young people. Because there are many goods online, they are much cheaper than physical stores. For example, I have bought Gansu Tianshui Huaniu apples online several times, the same variety and specifications, the physical store is now 10 yuan a catty, and ** is only 4 per catty$9. Shaanxi Luochuan Big Apple, the supermarket is about 8 yuan, and the online only needs 4 yuan. Some medicines or health products in pharmacies are also ridiculously high. For example, the Furong Tang brand of Ejiao Blood Replenishing Oral Liquid, 10 ml of 12 bottles, pharmacies sell 38 yuan a box, while online, a 20 ml of 12 bottles of a box only costs 37 yuan. It is not only free shipping, but also 7 days no reason to return. In a word, the same goods, online shopping is really not a little cheaper than the ** in physical stores.
Many brick-and-mortar store owners are complaining or wailing online, accusing e-commerce of making brick-and-mortar stores nowhere to go. However, for the majority of consumers, e-commerce has brought people high-quality and low-cost shopping channels, and now it is not easy to make money, and if you can save it, since there are low-cost goods, why spend more money to buy the best things? Judging from the trend of social development, consumers' enthusiasm for online shopping has become irreversible, and the demise of many physical stores is inevitable.
It's understandable that physical store goods** are higher than online purchases, because store owners need to pay store rent and other costs, but if the same goods** are 100% more expensive than online purchases, consumers will definitely not buy them. Therefore, the collapse of brick-and-mortar stores cannot completely shift the blame to e-commerce.
Personal opinion, for discussion only.