Research of the Risk and Profitability of Community Group Purchasing in the Context of New Retail Economy
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Community Group Purchasing, Risk, Profitability, Strategies
- Abstract
With the development of e-commerce, several forms of consumption appeared. Group purchasing is one of the forms of online shopping, which defines purchasing grocery in community groups from retail business by e-commerce ways. This paper will illustrate the properties of group purchasing and conclude the development process of group purchasing by researches. Then, it is going to discuss the risk and profitability of group purchasing nowadays by the methods of literature research, case study, and comparative analysis. Firstly, index analysis of the risk and profitability of community group-buying is the next part of the discussion, which is based on Dingdong (Cayman) Limited. Secondly, the category of risks will be given, which generally includes three main risks, competitional Risk, Financial Risk, and Operational Risk. The aim is to form a solution to benefit these two factors. Finally, the result of the research can be a guide to improve the profitability of businesses in the competitive group purchasing area and reduce the potential risks of the businesses.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Boxiong Li AU - Bin Lin AU - Runying Zhu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/09/18 TI - Research of the Risk and Profitability of Community Group Purchasing in the Context of New Retail Economy BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Financial Management and Economic Transition (FMET 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 69 EP - 76 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.012 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210917.012 ID - Li2021 ER -