What are the disadvantages of buying flowers online?
Let's answer for netizens the disadvantages of buying flowers online and the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of online flower purchasing, as well as the knowledge about flowers and plants. Let's take a look together.
With the development of online shopping, many flower enthusiasts like to buy potted plants online. Compared with buying from local flower markets, online shopping is cheaper and has become more and more popular. Why is online flower shopping so cheap? What are the disadvantages? Today let's talk about this issue~
1. Inconsistent sources of supply
When browsing online stores, we will find that a small store often sells only flowers of the same type, such as online stores specializing in succulents, rose stores, orchid stores, etc. These online stores usually have their own greenhouses or large suppliers, capable of large-scale propagation and cultivation of the same type of seedlings, which can greatly save costs and keep the purchase price of each pot of flowers low.
But it's different for physical stores. Physical stores rarely sell just one type of flower; they usually have many types together to make it convenient for flower enthusiasts to choose. Therefore, physical stores usually have several flower dealers as their supply channels. By the time flowers reach the store, they have changed hands two or three times, with more intermediate links and higher prices.
Stores in flower markets need to pay rent, and they also need to pay for water and electricity, employee wages, management fees, etc., every month. These invisible costs will lead to increased prices for seedlings.
2. Large online store sales volume
Physical stores generally cater to flowers in the surrounding areas. Even if it is a store in the same city, if it is too far from home, flower enthusiasts rarely visit. The monthly sales volume is not very large. However, online stores, through internet platforms, cater to flower enthusiasts across the country, with a very large customer base.
With the help of the internet platform, online stores can be seen by flower enthusiasts across the country. Shopping platforms like Taobao and Pinduoduo have ranking mechanisms, where the better the sales volume of a product, the higher the store's ranking, and the easier it is to be seen by customers. Therefore, online stores will set lower prices, and even with some profit margins, as long as sales volume goes up, overall profits are still considerable.
3. Platform subsidies
In order to increase their visibility and sales volume, online shopping platforms will launch various subsidies during holidays to attract more people to download the shopping app and register new accounts. After platform subsidies, the cost of potted plants will be further reduced, allowing the seller's price to be lower.
4. Quality difficult to guarantee
Of course, buying flowers online is not all advantages. There are also many disadvantages, the biggest one being that the quality of potted plants is difficult to guarantee. When we pick flowers in physical stores, we can directly see the actual flowers, observe their growth, the degree of bloom, and whether there are any diseases or pests. In this way, after payment, we can directly take our favorite plants home.