The impact of the epidemic on the e-commerce industry:

1. The epidemic has made the e-commerce platform develop in a more diversified direction. First of all, as far as the e-commerce shopping platform is concerned, medical e-commerce can be said to be the industry most affected by the epidemic. In February 22, the sales volume exceeded twice that of the Double Eleven in 219. Influenced by COVID-19, consumers began to "hoard medicine" in panic. Because the supply of surrounding pharmacies was limited, the way and means of consumers' purchase shifted from offline to online.

2. Covid-19, which originally restricted the economic development, has made medical e-commerce "lively" again. Ali Health has successively launched the service of "Buy medicine without going out" in Taobao and Alipay. The service has been online for less than three days, and the cumulative number of users visiting the page is close to 3 million. Such as Meituan's contactless delivery service, which highlights the digital transformation and the convenience of e-commerce.

3. The epidemic situation has also accelerated the development of e-commerce live broadcast platform. Although offline stores have been hit hard, many businesses have turned to Taobao, JD.COM and other e-commerce platforms or live broadcast platforms for sales. Driven by live e-commerce, the snack food industry has grown rapidly.

4. The epidemic has also made the e-commerce platform more professional and official. In order to promote the economic development of Hubei, which was seriously affected by the epidemic, the combination of Zhu Guangquan, a famous mouth of CCTV, and Li Jiaqi, a brother with goods, conducted a special public welfare live broadcast on the e-commerce platform, encouraging netizens to help Hubei's economy by purchasing Hubei specialties. Basically, many products sold in the live broadcast were not available for a second.

5. Land, air and sea transportation routes in many cities are restricted, which will inevitably affect more logistics transportation and prolong delivery time. At the same time, as a big industrial city, Wuhan's epidemic situation not only affects transportation but also production, causing other cities and their cooperative enterprises to face the vacancy of raw materials or semi-finished products, leading to the break of supply chain, affecting the production and supply of factories, and finally resulting in actual situations such as insufficient output and delayed delivery.