"Moving a supermarket online is definitely a viable idea, but the investment will be huge," Yi Haiyang said after a moment of thought.
"First, you need a warehousing center, as well as logistics and distribution. You can't possibly rely on courier companies to deliver goods for you, can you? If I were to buy a single bottle of mineral water online, how much profit could you make from it? Your prices can't be higher than a physical supermarket, right? Then you have to factor in the cost of manual delivery! With all that, can an online supermarket still be profitable? If there's no money to be made, what's the point of starting one?"
