E-commerce replaced food stalls and fruit shops. Is this social progress or commercial monopoly? For or against?

Nowadays, the e-commerce industry is developing rapidly, as if it had become an emerging industry overnight. The rise of e-commerce has gradually replaced small vendors and some physical stores. I think this is social progress, not commercial monopoly, because the emergence of e-commerce is precisely because of the development of science and technology, so I think this is the progress of human civilization, and we can't stand still. So I think the emergence of e-commerce facilitates people's lives, and the most important thing is to save people's time. We don't have to spend time choosing goods in the store as before, we can browse directly on our mobile phone and place an order, and the order will be sent directly to our home.

I prefer online shopping as a form of consumption. But now there are many voices that e-commerce has impacted the development of physical stores, which is also a serious phenomenon, resulting in many physical stores not selling now, and then gradually closing down. However, this is the inevitable trend of social development. Faced with this situation, we should learn to improve our industrial form and innovate our consumption pattern. We can choose to open our own micro-stores on the website or some stores choose the mode of offline and online operation together.

Every time I watch the news, not only domestic physical stores are hit by e-commerce, but also some large foreign department stores, such as Macy's. The rise of online stores has reduced their offline sales profits.

Then why are online stores so popular? Among them, I think the most important thing is convenience, followed by relatively cheap prices, because for example, some shopping websites now have special festivals, such as Double Eleven, Double Twelve and so on. In these festivals, goods will be greatly discounted, and many full reduction policies will be implemented to attract many consumers. This is a very big advantage compared with offline. However, shopping online also has some disadvantages. For example, we can't see the quality of goods with our own eyes, we can only feel the quality of goods through evaluation, and sometimes it is difficult to safeguard our consumer rights.