Background  :-

  • The transaction of buying or selling online, commonly known as E-commerce has seen a speedy growth within the buyers and sellers. The penetration of the internet has been sharp for which, e-commerce has also stepped up.
  • The competition among the players of e-commerce also keeps on leveling up day by day. With this drastic development of online buying and selling, the question of sustainability of the business model of e-commerce remains.

Yes :-

  • Big online companies are investing heavy amounts on the e-commerce players. Research on e-retailing says that there is ample of space left to explore in the e-commerce division; the e-commerce does not seem to get hampered as far as investors are investing.
  • India has a high potential of sustaining the e-commerce business. The Indian e-commerce is constantly on a rise in its part as more and more investors from foreign land shows up for investing.
  • With the tech-swayed generation and the wildfire of the internet, mobile phones, smartphones, tablets and other such electronic gadgets, e-commerce is now a long run player in the present business model.
  • A new dimension in business will mean that more jobs and employments. A recent HSBC report pointed out that e-commerce alone could create 12 million new jobs over a decade. Thus, e-commerce has to be a sustainable model for the people to get paid off.
  • E-commerce provides a relief to the e-retailers from TV ads and gives shelter in online ads which are also more vastly approachable to the new shoppers and gain credibility.
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No :-

  • As the current business model is not very smooth and sustainable, there may come a time when focus of e-commerce players would shift to other issues like customer segmentation for more profitability issues.
  • A few companies launch strategies of discounting and heavy spending on advertisements for the profit factor. Instead of profits, they have been facing huge losses due to these factors. The loss-making discounting strategy of e-commerce companies has been affecting the entire retail sector.
  • In spite the high revenues being reported by most of the major e-retailers, some of them face big loses monetarily. Companies like Snapdeal, Flipkart & Jabong too are constantly facing losses. These massive losses show that better and stronger business models are required to be framed to carry on with e-commerce.

Conclusion :-

In the last couple of years, e-commerce has been developing rapidly. It has given a completely new dimension to a customer. The e-commerce companies are striving and competing against each other to give better experiences to customers as well as manufacturers. The business models also keep developing along with the other factors related to e-commerce for an overall upliftment in the business.

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3 Comments

  • Tinku Paul, Sep 17, 2020 @ 7:17 am Reply

    According to me E-commerce sustainable business model. Nowadays modern generation wants to depend on E- commerce business. Many foreign companies wants to invest in india because India has market and cheap manpower so they can make their business and indian peoples will get gob. Nowadays most of the people wants to purchase through online . Peoples are very busy right now they don’t have time to go the market . In online purchase company offer discount and coupon etc. And not only people gets their articles in their
    door step and time schedule is there, when they are available .
    Everything dresses, grossories , food items , furniture, even gold jewelry they can purchase with discount
    So people prefer online shopping. It is increasing day by day. In this pandemic they are not able to go to outside but purchasing through online. I have seen on lockdown days everything closed but Zomoto and Swiggy ,flipcart, Amazon delivery person is roaming with their two wheeler. So according to me its a sustainable business.

  • Subir Saha, Nov 23, 2017 @ 3:27 pm Reply

    I am supporting the sustainability of E-commerce business model because now a days Narendra modi has set a goal to bring FDI in retail and online sector.So that we will get the investor as well and as the investors are investing in online business the E-commerce business model will grow up immensely.

    • Team GD Ideas, Nov 25, 2017 @ 6:38 am Reply

      True! More investments are on the way. But can the present e-commerce business model be able to generate profits in the long run?

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