The era of "vegetable market" has passed, and e-commerce platforms have frequently settled in. How should the elderly buy food?

People's livelihood problems in our country come from our daily life. Now, together with some western countries, there are problems such as inflation leading to rising prices. Nowadays, people's "buying food" has actually become a new livelihood issue. The emergence of many e-commerce platforms and community group purchases has made the vegetable market gradually depressed, and farmers selling vegetables have also suffered from "intra-industry involution". No matter how good their food is, it is hard to sell, and the market has been occupied by online platforms.

In China, vegetable farmers were often seen selling vegetables in the city on tricycles. These vegetables are all grown by vegetable farmers themselves at home. They struggled for months to come to this city and earn a meager income to support themselves. Vegetable farmers have no other income. The only craft is to grow vegetables, and people buy them one after another. They also support the vegetables sold by vegetable farmers and gather around to buy fresh vegetables.

Slowly, it is difficult for us to see these vegetable farmers in the streets, because the price of vegetables has been "stirred up" by the e-commerce platform. The vegetable market is also "deeply affected". In many stalls, fresh vegetables are left unattended until they go bad. During the epidemic, people can't go out to the vegetable market to buy food, so they can only order food online. For a time, many platforms focusing on fresh vegetables have sprung up, and various activities have attracted online consumers. Until today, buying fresh food and vegetables online has become people's living habits.

We know that the rise of e-commerce has led to the decline and closure of many industries. The hotel business was sluggish and the daily necessities store was hit hard. Even the clothing store declared that it couldn't do it anymore. Please welcome the next victim. The vegetable market has existed in China for many years. They have become an indispensable existence in people's lives. They never thought about it, and now they are shaken by e-commerce. Then people can't help but ask, will the vegetable market be eliminated as history because of e-commerce? So if the elderly can't use smart phones, where can they buy vegetables?

The word community group buying has existed for a long time. From discussing which vegetable market is cheap, to which group is recommended by the family for good welfare. In the early group buying mode, there was no business. Vegetables, fruits and fresh food all have such a characteristic, that is, time influence, which is different from what we buy online. There are strict requirements on storage time and storage location. The food that the community group buys for people is not fresh, so people naturally won't buy it. Of course, community buying also has benefits. Fast delivery and low price have become its irreplaceable advantages, especially the price issue. The price of group buying is impossible in the vegetable market. As long as people click on their mobile phones, cheap dishes will be quickly delivered to the people.

The state intervenes in the prices of fresh vegetables and other foods, and stipulates that group buying and malicious bidding by e-commerce will be punished by law, so there will still be business in the vegetable market. In the future, the vegetable market and e-commerce will develop together, so that e-commerce will not monopolize fresh vegetables, and the elderly will not have to worry about buying food.