1, direct delivery of "real food" is the first choice.
To buy food online, I recommend buying "real food", that is, ingredients. After many food safety incidents, everyone knows that processed food has only calories but no nutrition for the body. Many office workers began to consider cooking by themselves. In the absence of time to buy, online shopping and direct delivery to home are like timely rain.
No matter how Internet operators market, consumers should give priority to "direct delivery". Farmers choose to grow and raise their own ingredients, which is not only the source of knowledge, but also the risk is small. Compared with supermarkets, it won the time difference from delivery to shelves, and the freshness and deliciousness would not be discounted.
Buying from farmers has many advantages. In addition to supporting farmers' ideals with actions, farmers are less exploited by middlemen, and reasonable profits can make them worry more and invest in non-toxic cultivation. This interdependent consumption pattern enables farmers to interact positively with consumers. From then on, the food we eat began to have brands and names, rather than ingredients from unknown sources. Through long-term purchase, farmers have become our friends over time.
2. Classify individual purchases.
In order to let the public buy everything at once, the online shopping platform combining agriculture, fishery and livestock came into being. This platform looks very convenient, and most people prefer this kind of centralized procurement, but unless it is a credible platform, centralized procurement is not encouraged. It is sometimes difficult for the platform to grasp the quality of the supply through acquisition. In order to maintain sufficient supply, there will be many suppliers at the same time. These industrial structures are huge and complex, and the process of planting and breeding is not easy for you and me to understand.
3. Cheap things are not good
People who like online shopping always think that online shopping can be cheaper, and many goods are simply bought and earned. If it is a 3C product, I have nothing to say. If you know the model, you can really shop around without losing money, but if it's ingredients and food, you really think so. I can only say that you are really naive.
The biggest trap of online shopping for ingredients is that you can't see the finished products and the actual selection. The biggest difference between ingredients and other commodities lies in freshness, size and origin. If you don't know so much about quality, it's easy to be confused by the misuse of price.
Like the freshness, size and origin of seafood, it is directly related to the price. Are the crabs in the cod farm alive or frozen? Is it Hokkaido or Korea? These will make the price difference a lot. Buy seafood and dry goods, which are foods with big price difference, or don't trust online shopping too easily. Buying from a trusted physical store is the best policy.
The same is true of beef. On the Internet, rib eye beef is big and cheap. Seeing the "bargain", I felt sorry that I didn't buy it. But you can't be sure whether this beef will be frozen and thawed repeatedly. Except for the expiration of the shelf life, the most beautiful and expensive skull meat was cut off and sold at a high price, and the remaining steak could only be sold at a low price.
4. Have a regional concept.
Many people think that it is already online shopping anyway, and it doesn't matter where it is sent. This idea is all wet. There are still some differences in where the products come from, such as seafood. Of course, Penghu and Kameyama Island are the best producing areas. The best non-toxic industries in East China are rice, vegetables and chicken. The common characteristics of these producing areas are less industry and less pollution. After such screening and filtering, the ingredients you buy will be safer.
5. It is best to have a physical storefront.
Whether it is processed food, biscuits, cakes or snacks, it is best to give priority to those with physical stores or time-honored brands. The reason is nothing more than a sense of security. In Taiwan Province Province, it seems that anyone who wants to sell food can sell it online. Jiaozi, pies and biscuits made by Zhang San and Li Si are all put on the Internet, and there is no supervision by the health unit. In the case of unknown sanitary conditions and unknown sources of ingredients, blind shopping will expose itself to dangerous groups without knowing it.
In Taiwan Province Province, anyone can find a foundry to produce a product, as long as they are sure that this product sells well. Some road dealers, when they see something selling well, look for a foundry to make their own brands, so as to reduce costs and earn profits. This kind of business with only formula but no manufacturing capacity is too rampant on the Internet, which hides many problems.
Buying this product, due to the lack of professionalism, lacks the ability to audit upstream manufacturers. Although the price is cheap, food safety is really worrying. Excessive purchase of these online "groceries" may indirectly hit those intentional brands that set up their own factories and production lines in the market.
6. Buying "labeled" food is easy to become a big head.
One thing that online food sellers often do is to label, buy A goods and change them into their own B goods, that is, change the soup without changing the medicine. Through gorgeous packaging and touching marketing, the price has tripled. This is originally a commercial means, and there is nothing wrong with using your own brand to increase the price. But in fact, all the goods are the same, and I thought I chose something special, but in fact, the content is the same. Buying such goods is the biggest mistake. It's easy to see through this labeling technique. Don't trust the story marketing of merchants. Please evaluate whether the other party has the ability to produce by itself.
Although online shopping is convenient, it can't be managed at present, and with the problems of tax evasion, you should be careful to find the seller. It is suggested that it is best to find physical channels and old shops, refer to the seller's evaluation, and don't let online shopping become a nightmare.
(Excerpted from: Online Food Health Network)