Electronic commerce is the buying or selling items over the internet through two or more computers to make a profit. There are four main different ways of electronic commerce (e-commerce). The ways e-commerce takes place is business to business, where a store like Nike might sell to a Shoe Outlet Store online, business to consumer, where a store such as Best Buy sells to a guy named Jim online, consumer to consumer, where Jim sells to Jane online, and business to government, where a store such as Office Depot would sell to the Pentagon online. All of these ways listed are types of e-commerce that businesses, the government, or even people just like you use and earn money off of.
E-commerce has influenced our society both positively and negatively. It has positively changed our society by offering internet stores that are open twenty four hours a day. Also, it is a lot cheaper and easier to set up an e-commerce website that it is to make your own store. E-commerce has negatively......
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