Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines two global retail trends: e-commerce and greening. The authors establish that the development of these trends is contradictory, since e-commerce is associated with a large number of packaging materials required for delivery. The authors claim that small retail enterprises, opening their own online stores, transfer the obligations to carry out delivery to third-party companies-courier aggregators. The paper presents an overview of delivery services that have an environmental component (“Gotovo” and “B12 Zero Waste”). Next, the authors study the possibility of creating a green courier aggregator that can not only deliver, but also organize the turnover of reusable containers. The second activity of that company may be the sale of secondary raw materials. It is emphasized that the projected company can resolve the contradiction in the development of e-commerce and the greening of retail. Moreover, the importance of a more decisive transition to an ecological model of retail enterprises is noted.
Source: Transportation research procedia
Authors: Svetlana Doguchaeva, Oksana Fedorova, Gleb Mityashin
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4285127331