Appears to be paternalistic overregulation or feel good measures! How much is enforceable and how much will be enforced!
Customers/shoppers are not that dumb!
Showing posts with label online shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online shopping. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026
India’s New Online Shopping Rules: What Changes for You? with Palki Sharma
Monday, July 20, 2026
EU Commission fines Chinese AliExpress €550 million for breaching the Digital Services Act over sales of illegal, counterfeit products
Good news?
"Today, the European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for breaching its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform. The Commission has ordered the platform to take action. ..."
"EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen ... pointed to AliExpress's 193 million users in Europe last year versus Shein's 156 million and Temu's 130 million. Temu has also been fined under the DSA and Shein is facing an ongoing investigation. ..."
Sunday, April 12, 2026
China: Consumers can almost order anything online from their smartphone
Update of 4/17/2026: Today's South China Morning Post headline "China’s e-commerce platforms hit with 3.6 billion yuan fine for food safety violations". Seven platforms were fined including Taobao, TMall.
E.g. who needs a grocery store anymore? Have fresh vegetables or fruits delivered to your home or a pickup point.
It is quite amazing what you can order of Chinese competitors of Amazon. There are several online platforms available.
However, some online vendors do a very poor job advertising their products. Product description and presentations often are inadequate and not satisfactory.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Amazon is bringing fast delivery to rural America, but 48-hour shipping is no easy feat
Good news!
"Amazon is building delivery hubs across sparsely populated parts of the U.S. to cut shipping times to about two days, a big improvement for rural customers used to waiting up to a week. The push also helps the company rely less on the U.S. Postal Service after tensions over contract terms."
Saturday, December 27, 2025
About online shopping and home delivery in China
I just learnt second hand about the advances of it and it was stunning!
It appears to be far more advanced than in the e.g. US.
There perhaps more than 100 online shopping platforms competing with each other. The competition is cutthroat. Home delivery is very fast almost like within hours.
You can buy almost anything online and have it delivered either to your home or a facility for pickup near your home.
Even very low priced items or low priced food items can easily be delivered including regional food specialties from across China.
The items for sale also include perishable goods. Buyers report that perishable food items were home delivered with extra ice and buyers have reported that the ice was not even melted by the time it arrived.
The abundance and variety of items you can purchase online is stunning.
When a customer can not quickly resolve a dispute with a seller on these online shopping platforms, a platform agent will immediately appear on screen and intervene to resolve the issue by giving the buyer a number of very favorable options for the consumer and the seller will have to accept the buyers choice. Just one example, if the seller does not refund shipping costs for a return, the platform agent may decide to overrule the sellers exclusion.
The goal seems to be to achieve the highest possible buyer/consumer satisfaction possible albeit sometimes these online shopping platforms benefit the consumer too much at the expense of the seller.
What are the profit margins? Is it the high volume of online purchases given the extremely low prices and the intense, cutthroat competition?
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