What is e-commerce and how did it start?

E-commerce is the process of buying or selling a service over the Internet. The beginnings of e-commerce over the Internet go back several years. The most successful one was when Amazon launched. It was launched to be the largest commercial website for selling books online and then expanded to include many products.

Now through Amazon, you can buy even vegetables and they will have them fresh the next morning.

E-commerce has developed over time, and many countries have turned to the Internet and technology as an alternative and practical solution for many things. Now, you can renew your car license or issue an alternative identity card online without even having to leave your home.

The Internet and e-commerce have penetrated our lives to the extent that we cannot imagine our lives without the Internet. Imagine your life without the Internet, how would we be?

People knew e-commerce 40 years ago, and to this day e-commerce is still growing and developing.

And if we talk about the beginnings of e-commerce and how it began? We have to talk about the e-commerce giant at the moment, Amazon.

When Amazon opened to start a business, the staff consisted of only a handful of people packing and shipping boxes of books from a two-car garage in Bellevue, Washington.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, and CEO left for the Pacific Northwest, using some of his time on the road to write the company’s business plan.

The books were then being packed on a table made of an extra door, which they found lying in a new house. And then it turned into a habit practiced until today, as there are many office tables made of doors in Amazon offices.

One of the most popular online stores in 1994 was Pizza Hut. When Amazon came on the scene not long after, the idea of selling books online was a bit strange.

The question now is, why would people buy books online when they could go to a bookstore? But eventually, a revolutionary change in culture and groupthink broke out.

The big sellers were the owners of fixed goods, things you did not have to touch or smell to buy, such as books, computers, electronics, etc.

Now, there is no limit to what can be sold online. Just as the Internet has developed, so has online buying, so there is a website to buy anything. Now you can buy perfumes online, something you used to go to the store and try before deciding to buy.

Part of the shift has to do with the nature of giving out personal information online.

All it took was one click on the purchase button from consumers but on the other hand, users were feeling reluctant to give out their credit card numbers online.

But with the development of layers of protection, the user has become more comfortable when using their credit card information online.

Now some consumers have so much confidence that they even allow merchants to save their credit card and shipping information.

We do not deny that the launch of PayPal had an effective role in supporting e-commerce and moving it to what we see it now.

Part of it was to make the online experience more enjoyable than the shopping trip in the stores.

Many websites have taken care to orient themselves towards consumers who like to try the product before buying. While web shoppers technically have to buy the product first, websites like Zappos, which specializes in shoes, and Pepperlim, which sells clothing and accessories, offer free shipping on return products.

If you buy, try it, and if you don’t like it, you can easily return or exchange it.