6 Basic Types Of E-Commerce In 21th Century

The “always on” lifestyle has become a cultural norm of showing off the tiniest details of our lives. The thought process that people might care about what we had for breakfast has taken over. We, as a culture, have taken a giant leap from worrying about the government spying on us to shamelessly throwing our secrets at them. They do not need to peek through the cameras in our computers or tablets, it is all free for them on the internet. “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” - Neil, Postman.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has become a giant in the world of fast food/sit down restaurants with its unique food and its incorporated supply chain, with over 1,900 locations. As a focal point the restaurant has emphasized its ability to include quality ingredients from local producers on their available menu. Some of these ingredients include fresh vegetables, herbs, spices and naturally raised meat. They have used local sourcing for most of these products but have still used certain big name countrywide suppliers for some of their product. The roughly 100 suppliers for its 64 ingredients that deliver their purchased items however, don’t include local farms. These local farms are generally within 350 miles of any given restaurant. Chipotles

The essay “Your Social Life: Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog?” is written by Pamela Haag and can be found on pages 398-400. Haag discusses in her essay the two types of social groups: foxes, and hedgehogs. The generations before social media would be, mostly, classified as hedgehogs and the generations after social media would be, mostly, classified as foxes. Foxes have broad friend bases but shallow relationships. On the other hand, hedgehogs have narrow friend bases and deep relationships with more meaning. Social media has created the popularity of many meaningless relationships diminishing the number of true connections among people.

Growth opportunities may exists for American Apparel from the overall increased demand in plus size clothing. This is being driven by a range of social, economic, politics, technological and other factors, which has seen a long-term trend emerge for greater problem obesity throughout the developed world, especially in Western Europe and American.

“Companies today are rushing headlong to become more digital…This often results in piecemeal initiatives or misguided efforts…[regarding their use of social media platforms]” (Dorner and Edelman, 2015:1)

Social media has to be one of the greatest developments of human history. It has connected humanity like never before. It has changed the way that people do business, with companies providing their own social media accounts to interact in real time with customers. We can quickly see what’s going on in our communities and around the world.

The power and utility of the internet is common knowledge to literate people. It has fundamentally shifted the economic land scape to such an extent that its era is dubbed the new economy (Turban et e, 2011l). At the heart of this new economy is e-commerce. E-commerce is simply doing business online. Amongst the companies at the pinnacle of the new economy and more specifically e-commerce is Amazon. Amazon was by far the greatest e-commerce performer in terms of revenue in 2013 as reported by (Wireless News, 2014). One of the company’s many accolades is that it has the seventh most visited website in the world (alexa, 2015). Compared to its competitors, meaning companies that are offering similar services, it is number one. The position occupied by Amazon in the market warrants a study of the company and its businesses model.

Social media and communication technologies enhance how people share, communicate, and interact with audiences. The purpose of this research is to gain a deeper understanding how social media impacts the sports business and how it has changed the way teams and clubs engage their target segments. My research examines how the relationship between professional athletes and sports fans has grown. In order to serve this purpose, the following research questions are

Living in the modern era makes social media become part of our life. Basically, social media are used for communication and social interaction. Based on the Merriam-Webster, social media are forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). There are lots of social media that people use nowadays such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Path, and others. Most of people probably have two or more social media’s accounts. Social media are mostly used by adults and adolecents. However, there are a lot of children that already use social media. Based on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, children under 13 years are not allowed to use social media for it can give bad impact for the children who actively use it.

In this Modern Era, Social Media plays an pivotal role in communicating. If we look according to the expert B.K Lewis, media social is label for digital technology that allows people to interact,providing and sharing the message content.We know that social media is very close to the community.Even it can be said that “human’s can’t lived without social media”. It can have both positive and negative effects,depending on how people used social media.

In this new era of internet, computers and cell phones play a vital role in business. The growth of technology is in its highest pace. Marketing and communication techniques also changed with the technology. With the growth of Internet, online social Medias have become important communication channels and also virtual communities have emerged. This virtual world has become a new kind of social communication, connecting people to variety of online communities has been growing during past two decades. The people in this virtual world may not meet in the physical world but nevertheless they are able to affect behaviour including purchasing decisions of an individual. Consumers are spending more time in checking the social networking websites and applications.

Since the beginning of the 1990’s, e-commerce has radically changed consumer behaviour by introducing new retail channels (Ngai and Gunasekaran, 2007). Serious attempts to trade online started to emerge in the mid-1990s wheninnovative, technically savvy companies responded to the opportunities and challenges posed by the internet, to develop sophisticated web sites to serve customers, in their homes (Rayport and Sviokla, 1994). The present retail environment is characterised by new, store and non- store, retailing formats, a wide range of new products, use of new information and communication technologies and consequently, the changing customer needs. Moreover, the dynamic lifestyle conditions of consumers has resulted a change in their personal environment that contributes to a profound change in customer behaviour (Schröder and Zaharia, 2008). Retailing in the 21st century means doing business with customers on their terms (Mathwicket al., 2002). E-tailing represents a form of in- home shopping and the major non-store channel (Levy and Weitz, 2007). Wang and Head (2007) highlight that the internet is increasingly being viewed as a tool and place to enhance customer relationship. According to Weitz (2010), e-tailers are using technology to convert “touch-and-feel” attributes into “look-and-see” attributes.

In his book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, Neil Postman analyzes the change of mediums from a Typographic Age to a Telegraphic Age; but because technology has advanced since the 1980s, it does not address every new medium and its effects. One recent medium that dominates the internet is online shopping. With seventy nine percent of Americans making online purchases (Weller), it is quickly becoming a new tool for everyday life. This medium attracts every aspect of buying, from office supplies to dog treats. The demand for online shopping stores is increasing rapidly year by year. Because a shopper has thousands of online stores to choose from, larger shipping stores compile products from smaller sites to make it more accessible for the buyers. Although online stores—like Amazon— have many benefits, they are altering the culture to be fast paced and impatient.

According to Amin & Noor (2013), the E-consumers generally refer to the purchaser of goods and services over electronic systems such as Internet and other computer networks. This new group of consumers is increasing in number over the years as on-line shopping become a trend and manifestation of modern life style.Based from the Paynter & Lim (2001), E-commerce would provide consumers with benefits such as interactive communications, fast delivery, and more customization that would only be available for consumers through online shopping. Product information in the Internet is more compact and it ranges from various sites. Users have more opportunity to choose and compare products they want to purchase or easily find and select specialized products. This kind of open market place would increase competition, provide benefit for industrial buyers as it will promote better quality and more variety of goods.

During the past decades, the retailing industry has gone through many important changes. Saturated markets, fierce competition, and the turbulent macro-economic environment have condemned retailers to reconsider their retail strategy. Actually there are four factors which have constantly been reshaping the world of business – technological advances such as the internet, the loss of geographic advantage resulting from globalization, the shake-up of the traditional industries as a result of de-regulation and the rising power of the modern and complex consumer. However one of the most important factors remains the evolution of the Internet. In this era of globalisation, the Internet has gone far beyond networking