E-Commerce

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consumption, while increasing number of choices is the first one. With online platform such as instagram, transaction is no longer confined to “Business-to-Consumer”, but also other kinds of e-commerce including “consumer-to-consumer” and “business-to-business”, etc. (Munirul Hasan, 2013). It means that consumers can also post the goods they would like to sell online and trade with other consumers. Apart from it, consumers can access and purchase from overseas even the brand is not available in their own countries. It contributes to the wider choice base for consumers. Owing to the convenience mentioned in the last paragraph and more choice available, people shopped easier than before and sometimes buy more than necessary, especially under the allure of the promotions, advertisements or cheaper prices of goods posed online. The original one which is can still be used may be abandoned by users, which is a waste of resources.

To summarize, e-commerce is changing the shopping habits and consumption habits of people by providing 24 hours services and saving people’s time to travel around. In addition, it provides a platform for not only businessman with huge capital to raise a company to sell goods, but also small business and even consumers themselves can be the one who sell products, but one thing that cannot be negligible is that it may lead to overconsumption and harms our beautiful environment. Therefore, whether it is good for human is dependable on how people use it probably. After all, it is clearly that it changes the habits of people to consume.

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