If we observe enough, the condition of the world in a post-pandemic time is pretty predictable. After all that we’ve gone through, the world is, at some level, in a much calmer situation, although the practices that we adopted during the pandemic are yet to change. What heats up our head is the dominant question as to how E-commerce will contribute in a post-pandemic world. 

COVID-19 certainly did change our lifestyle. From how we shopped to how we worked, we are indeed going through a different world and economy. It’s fascinating how we adapted to major changes in a matter of a few days while the world has been constant and firm in its own practices for the past few decades. 

Like I already mentioned, the world is predictable as to how it will turn out post-pandemic. E-commerce is wild in this pandemic condition. The truth is that people aren’t preferring to go online just because going out is forbidden and risky. But because doing things remotely is much safer and easy. In simpler words, E-commerce is, in every way, convenience at its peak! 

Looking into this matter, one major change we can notice is how shopping has evolved through the pandemic. With the arrival of COVID-19, online shopping happened to skyrocket! Even now, people have completely adopted this change and we can already see this trend taking over post-pandemic as we go into 2021. 

However, this doesn’t mean that online shopping will stay as it is now in a post-pandemic world. Despite the convenience it presents before us, traditional shopping is a much more practical concept, which gives shoppers a more reliable way to shop. However, this only means that online shopping will see a tiny dip in its activity and it’s predicted that online shopping will stay and dominate traditional shopping. 

What leads to this condition is the fact that we are not going to forget about the much-feared global pandemic overnight. Even in a post-pandemic world, there will still be slightly a small amount of fear within us, with the trialed dresses in shops posing as a pretty strong channel of spreading diseases. 

Even during the pandemic, stores did run out of supplies. At such times, we all had to rely on online shopping to get our hands on the daily necessities to keep ourselves up, alive, and running through days and nights. People won’t easily forget such situations that we were fallen into. 

Despite all these points that we’re trying to make, at the end of the day, online shopping is the most convenient way to shopping. This is why E-commerce was able to skyrocket during the pandemic. Looking at how established E-commerce has evolved during these times, we can certainly see a stronger channel of online opportunities as we go into 2021, a post-pandemic world. 

E-commerce is not at its finest form currently. It can certainly improve in many ways and if it do manage to improve to its optimal capability, we can easily predict E-commerce becoming a dominant opportunity for the economy. The fact that it opens up opportunities makes it an important fuel for the world to go on. 

The fact that E-commerce makes lives more convenient and safer gives it an amazingly important role, given the risks that we’re always surrounded with now and in the future as well. That being the case, E-commerce ultimately presents a much safer community for the sake of the world and the people living within.

By: Jeff Mejia- CEO, LSG Software Solutions