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Packaging waste
Online retail’s big packaging problem: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbird1/2018/07/29/what-a-waste-online-retails-big-packaging-problem/#514590a5371d
Waste piling up in China: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/packaging-waste-fast-piling-up-as-e-commerce-sales-soar
Environmental challenges due to fast shipping
Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/16/20917467/amazon-one-day-shipping-bad-for-environment
Pandemics and e-commerce
China exporting masks and swabs: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/china-coronavirus-masks-tests.html
How the pandemic is driving e-commerce: https://epsnews.com/2020/06/04/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-driving-e-commerce/
COVID-19’s implications on e-commerce: https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/5023187/healthcare-e-commerce-global-market-report-2020?utm_source=dynamic&utm_medium=BW&utm_code=kh3fxp&utm_campaign=1387020+-+Global+Healthcare+E-Commerce+Market+Report+(2020+to+2030)+-+COVID-19+Implications+and+Growth&utm_exec=jamu273bwd
(read the summary lol)
SEA’s online shopping trends during the pandemic: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/southeast-asias-online-grocery-shopping-trends-during-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Singaporean’s shopping habits during the CB: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/covid-shopping
(I find it interesting how both more BBT and more workout equipment were bought online lol)
Brick and mortars' disappearance
Brick and mortars + malls affected by the current situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/business/coronavirus-malls-department-stores-bankruptcy.html
Well, customers don’t want brick and mortars to disappear: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181114164345.htm
Walmart trying to join e-commerce to fight amazon: https://youtu.be/XuO2EqRddHM
Security concerns/defective products
Fake stuff: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=853640f2-ce25-4c7d-b596-7b1ee9625e1b
Made in China, the risks of buying cheaper tech: https://www.itpro.co.uk/hardware/30896/made-in-china-the-risks-of-buying-cheaper-tech
Happened to find this crazy thing (China hacking computer motherboards): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/04/china-is-secretly-hacking-computer-motherboards-the-economic-fallout-is-huge/