What are the benefits of online shopping? What are the disadvantages?

Advantages and current situation analysis of online shopping: "Online shopping", a gradually popular shopping method in the 20th century, has been accepted by more and more people, whether millionaires, fashionable working girls or ordinary wage earners, most of them may have had online shopping experience. Some of these people may just want to experience the feeling of online shopping, some may regard online shopping as a sign of "intellectuals", and some may regard online shopping as an important part of daily life, rather than the traditional way of shopping on the streets. What exactly is online shopping? Simply put, online shopping is to "move" traditional stores directly home, use the Internet to directly buy the goods you need, or enjoy the services you need. Professionally speaking, it is a new shopping mode that both parties complete the whole transaction process from negotiation, signing, payment for goods and delivery notice. It is an important part of e-commerce through the Internet and B-to-C mode online shopping interface technology. So some people regard this as a large unified virtual shopping mall facing the whole country and even the whole world. But in my opinion, this electronic mall is not virtual, because every step and even every detail of shopping is real. The only difference from the traditional shopping mode is that there is less verbal communication and more filling and confirmation process. Generally speaking, the operation of online shopping can be roughly divided into two forms: one is an electronic store, that is, operators who provide online shopping and online services directly sell goods or provide services to network users through their own websites, and the other is an electronic mall, in which many operators who provide different goods and services are concentrated on one website, and users can buy goods or services provided by different companies on the same website. That is to say, in the former case, the website operator is also a store operator, while in the latter case, the website operator plays more like an intermediary between the store operator and the consumer. Where is the charm of online shopping? First of all, for consumers: first, you can shop at home, and the order is not limited by time. Second, get a lot of commodity information, and you can buy goods that are not available locally. Third, online payment is safer than traditional cash payment, which can avoid cash loss or robbery. Fourth, from ordering and purchasing to door-to-door, there is no need to visit the site, saving time and effort. Fifth, because online stores save a series of expenses such as renting storefronts and asking employees to store and keep them, generally speaking, their prices are cheaper than similar goods in general shopping malls. Secondly, for merchants, because online sales have the advantages of no inventory pressure, low operating cost and unlimited operating scale, more enterprises will choose online sales in the future, feed back market information in time through the Internet, adjust their business strategies in time, and improve their operating efficiency and ability to participate in international competition. To sum up, we can see that online shopping has broken through the traditional commercial barriers and has great attraction and influence on consumers, enterprises and markets. Undoubtedly, it is an ideal model to achieve "win-win" in the new economic era. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. Online shopping is still a "double-edged sword", which requires the joint efforts of merchants and consumers to make this huge potential market better and stronger.