A 17-year-old New Jersey high school student developed an app to record encounters with police when people are pulled over, according to Google Play Store.
While this alone is nothing new — it can also share the footage to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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17-year-old develops app to auto-share police encounters during pull-overs
Called Police, the app saw a surge in use when the U.S. saw widespread protests against police brutality, the abuse of power apparent in viral videos of law enforcement conduct, and the widespread campaign to fight systemic racism in the aftermath of the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, reports Business Insider.
Since then, the discussion surrounding holding law enforcement more accountable has become the epicenter of U.S. discourse — and technology could play a central role in this state of calamity.
This national situation drove 17-year-old student Aaditya Agrawal of Livingston High School, New Jersey, to develop a new app that can automatically share footage recorded when law enforcement pulls people over on social media platforms.
Precedence in Apple's Shortcut combined with 'Police'
Of course, Agrawal's PulledOver isn't totally new. In 2018, Apple launched a feature called Shortcuts that let anyone write scripts for the iPhone, and a widely-shared shortcut called Police let users record police interactions and texts with emergency contacts — to inform them of an encounter with police (like being pulled over).
Shortcuts is similar to IFTTT, an app editing software platform, and is also Workflow.
One iPhone user even developed a shortcut capable of prompting one's iPhone to start recording police interactions after uttering the words: "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." Developed by Robert Peterson of Arizona, "Police" saw wide circulation as the 2020 protests ramped up.
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Developing PulledOver
Agrawal has been working on the app — called PulledOver — for a while, according to Business Insider. But development of the app picked up pace in the last several months amid the increased national discourse surrounding the way law enforcement officers treat Black Americans.
However, he also has a more personal motivation in bringing the app to completion — Agrawal has a friend who's Black, and was recently pulled over without apparent cause.
"You see it in the news all the time, but when it happens to one of your close friends — and he tells you how it felt for that to happen to him — then you understand the significance," said Agrawal to Business Insider.
How PulledOver works, Android-compatible
Prospective users can download PulledOver in the Google Play Store. Notably, there's no need to sign in or create a new account to use it. All it takes is adding an emergency contact, and the system is ready.
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"The last thing you want to be worrying about is how an app works when you get pulled over," said Agrawal to Business Insider.
When users are pulled over, they can launch the app. Once activated, it automatically goes to the phone's native camera app. Press record, and when the moment has passed, users are returned to the PulledOver app and prompted to notify an emergency contact or share the feed on social media.
Sharing police footage, setting good examples, iOS availability
Alternatively, users may also share the footage with other PulledOver app users, a feature Agrawal hadn't seen offered in similar apps.
"It's almost like a community where you can share videos — you can see how other people are being treated," he said to Business Insider. He added that he hopes the app will elevate the "many good police officers as well."
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"If you share good police officers and you celebrate them, hopefully, it will inspire others to become better as well," said Agrawal to Business Insider.
The app went live on June 20, roughly one month after Floyd's killing.
As of writing, the app has 350 installs, and Agrawal hasn't moved forward with paid marketing campaigns — opting instead for organic spread via word-of-mouth through family and friends. At the moment this is the only such app available for Android smartphones via the Google Play Store, but Agrawal aims to translate it for iOS capability by the end of 2020.
However, while PulledOver downloads will probably grow amid Android users, it's less likely to receive approval from Apple to be listed on its proprietary App Store.
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The Stranger Things actress was scheduled to appear as a witness on behalf of her ex-fiance on Wednesday, but due to time constraints, both her and Vanessa Paradis’s appearances were scrapped from the schedule.
However, both stars witness statements were submitted before the trial.
Ryder – who was in a relationship with Depp between 1989 and 1993 and engaged to the star for three years – said: ‘I am aware of the violence allegations that have been made publicly for the last few years by Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard.
‘I knew Johnny very well years ago. We were together as a couple for four years, and I counted him as my best friend, and as close to me as family.
‘I count our relationship as one of the more significant relationships of my life.’
Depp and Ryder were engaged in the early 90s (Picture: Bei/REX)
The 48-year-old continued: ’I understand that it is very important that I speak from my own experience, as I obviously was not there during his marriage to Amber, but, from my experience, which was so wildly different, I was absolutely shocked, confused and upset when I heard the accusations against him.
‘The idea that he is an incredibly violent person is the farthest thing from the Johnny I knew and loved.
‘I cannot wrap my head around these accusations. He was never, never violent towards me. He was never, never abusive at all towards me. He has never been violent or abusive towards anybody I have seen.’
The Edward Scissorhands actress added: ‘I truly and honestly only know him as a really good man – an incredibly loving, extremely caring guy who was so very protective of me and the people that he loves, and I felt so very, very safe with him.
‘I do not want to call anyone a liar but from my experience of Johnny, it is impossible to believe that such horrific allegations are true. I find it extremely upsetting, knowing him as I do.’
Johnny and Vanessa have two kids together (Picture: Sipa/REX)
Vanessa, who was in a relationship with Depp, 57, between 1998 and 2012, also filed a witness statement.
The 47-year-old, who shares daughter Lily-Rose, 21, and son Jack, 18, with Depp, said: ‘I work as a musician, singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion model.
‘I have known Johnny for more than 25 years. We’ve been partners for 14 years and we raised our two children together.
‘Through all these years I’ve known Johnny to be a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent person and father.
‘On movie sets the actors, directors and entire crews adore him because he is humble and respectful to everyone, as well as being one of the best actors we’ve seen.
‘I am aware of the allegations which Amber Heard has publicly accused Johnny of for more than four years now.
Depp denies the allegations of abuse (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)
‘This is nothing like the true Johnny I have known, and from my personal experience of many years, I can say he was never violent or abusive to me.
‘I have seen that these outrageous statements have been really distressing, and also caused damage to his career because unfortunately people have gone on believing these false facts.
‘This is so upsetting as he has helped so many persons in his personal and professional life, with kindness and generosity.’
Neither Ryder nor Paradis will appear via video link following their witness statements.
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NGN’s defence relies on 14 allegations of domestic violence against his ex-wife Ms Heard, all of which Depp denies.
Heard and Depp met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2009 and started dating after his separation from Paradis.
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Your school district has been planning to reopen schools since March. We are ready to roll those yellow buses in your neighborhood, unlock the front doors of 45 schools, and welcome 42,000 boys and girls into our community of learning. It is what we do best.
I am confident and comfortable with our safety protocols because they are deeply rooted in the guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Education Agency.
Our school board has infused us with staffing, technology, and the physical resources to successfully and securely reopen our schools. For example, we have added 24 custodians. We have added aides to every campus to help each school nurse. We are hiring additional bus drivers. We have placed an order to provide students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade laptops in the event there is a need to move to remote learning. This brings Clear Creek ISD to a complete 1 to 1 program K through 12, a statement not many other school districts can make. I am thankful to our seven school board members who have been responsive to the needs of staff and students.
We are ready to start brick and mortar school. But as we know, the pandemic continues to affect our community.
Although, I have been working closely with health authorities, physicians, school board members, the Texas Education Agency and superintendents in our region to make the best decisions with the most accurate data, no one has proclaimed to be an expert on this pandemic. The issue we have today is that there is not a single metric, or goal to reach to declare it is “Safe to Return” to brick and mortar, despite our valid efforts to protect students and staff from COVID-19. Like you, I have asked what does “safe” mean? Is it a single digit of positivity rate, 14 days of a downward trend in COVID-19 cases, or it is a vaccine? We still are seeking answers to those important questions from health authorities. We do know that the positive test rates need to continue downward with a goal of 5% positive test rates but that is one of several variables to be considered in multiple counties. We also know that we all must do our part with daily health screenings, remaining calm if and when there is a positive test, and help each other adapt our behaviors so we can mitigate the risk of this virus.
I, like many of my colleagues across the region believe the best environment for a child to receive quality instruction is within the classroom, face-to-face albeit six feet apart from the teacher. We know our schools are the hubs of the community. I am concerned about the increasing sense of isolation, depression and anxiety among students. They need to be with their teachers, their friends, visit with the school counselor, and participate in the activities that bring joy to their lives. The longer our doors remain closed, the more distant children become from those experiences. This realization weighs heavy on my heart and my decision-making. Is it more dangerous to keep our school doors closed? I would argue, yes.
However, I have always said, we will listen to the advice of health officials. There are several phases to our current plan that will enable us to make sure our procedures and protocols are not only adhered to but will change behavior to make sure our students and staff stay healthy.
We are currently in a phase where our 330 new teachers have reported to their respective campuses while band students and strength and conditioning students are continuing at their local campuses. I am proud of our kids and staff to date for staying healthy. Please continue to mask up, socially distance and practice good hygiene habits.
The next phase brings in our 5,000 employees next week to get ready for students through a variety of professional learning activities for online learning as well as introducing our Standard Operating Procedures to safely reopen CCISD. This will take place over a two-week period.
The third transition phase will introduce students in Pre-K, Kindergarten, 6th Grade, 9th Grade and some self-contained classes for students with special needs who selected Brick and Mortar beginning August 31, 2020. This amounts to approximately 9,200 students learning inside CCISD schools. While these three stages are occurring, we will be monitoring our Standard Response Protocols and procedures.
On Monday, I will update the Board of Trustees with a plan that will extend the 3rd transition phase by one week, which will bring the rest of the Brick and Mortar students on campus beginning September 14, 2020 in order to adhere to the guidelines discussed with county health officials. Currently, over 60% of our parents have selected Brick and Mortar for their children.
I know moving the goal post down the field is a hardship for working families and a disappointment to our kids who really want to get back into their schools. I get it. I want to resume normal operations as soon as possible.
Despite this setback, let’s remain united and committed to working together. We are at our very best when we walk through challenges hand in hand. We have done it before, and we will do it again. We continue to walk through unknown territory and I know our community has high expectations for this year and so do I, but please be patient as there will be plenty speed bumps along the way that will make things somewhat messy from time to time. Our Mission is to get better every day so your children can achieve, contribute and lead with integrity.
Last night, we held an informative session on our reopening plans. If you did not see it, please watch it here.
Thank you,
Greg Smith, Ph.D.
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Breakfast and lunch time on your child's campus will look a little different this year with our social distancing guidelines. Watch as CCISD Director of Child Nutrition Fred Walker shows us how students will pick up their meals.
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Buses will cleaned between each transportation run and disinfected nightly.
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The safety and health of our students is our top priority every year in CCISD, but we understand our cleaning procedures need to be intensified to further prevent the spread of COVID-19.
On each campus, there will be cleaning throughout the day of high touch areas and restrooms.
Each night every classroom will be disinfected.
Classrooms will be provided hand sanitizer and disinfecting supplies to be used between classes.
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Students encouraged to clean desk area when they arrive and before leaving.
CCISD Board of Trustees approved hiring 24 additional custodians.
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Two 16 year olds to be on opposite sides at the Capital City Challenge, a Hockey Canada event in Ottawa featuring three age-16 teams plus the senior women’s national team that is preparing for Beijing Olympics
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Defenceman Mazden Leslie (left) spent last spring with the Giants in the B.C. Division hub as an underage call-up, giving him a head start on this season as a WHL regular at age 16. Photo by Doug Sage /files
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Leslie, a Vancouver Giants rookie defenceman, and Halaburda, a Giants rookie forward, left Tuesday for Ottawa, where they’ll take part in the Capital City Challenge starting Friday and running through Dec. 1.
The tournament features 66 of the top Under-17 aged junior players from across the country split into three teams along with the Canadian senior national women’s squad, which is using the event to prep for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
Leslie is a member of Canada White while Halaburda is suiting up for Canada Black. Their teams meet on Monday in the final game of pool play.
“It will definitely be different after being with him the past couple of months,” Leslie said prior to departure of facing Halaburda. “He’ll play me hard. I’ll have to match that.”
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Halaburda said simply of squaring off against Leslie: “It’s going to be fun.”
Twenty 16-year-old players from across the Western Hockey League are slated to take part in the tournament. Like the Giants, there are two players apiece from the Moose Jaw Warriors, Kelowna Rockets, Prince George Cougars, Seattle Thunderbirds and Spokane Chiefs.
Hockey Canada is in charge of proceedings and they’ve said that the Capital City Challenge is a one-time event to replace the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, a long-standing Hockey Canada production that was cancelled this season and last due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Russia won the last Under-17 Challenge, which took place in 2019 in Medicine Hat and Swift Current. The Americans took second spot while the Czech Republic came in third.
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In 2018, the podium featured Russia, Finland and Sweden, respectively, in a tournament split between Quispamsis and Saint John, N.B.
Past Giants in the tournament include Justin Sourdif (2018), Cole Shepard (2018) and Bowen Byram (2017). The Under-17 Challenge originated in 1986, and has featured the likes of Pavel Bure, Roberto Luongo, Bo Horvat and Joe Sakic.
“Under-17 wasn’t as competitive as the Under-18s because it’s split into three (Canadian) teams, but it’s still a great tournament,” said Sourdif, the current Vancouver No. 1 centre who was a part of Canada’s single entry in the August 2019 Hlinka Gretzky Cup in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and who also went to the world junior summer development camp earlier this year. “Unfortunately, our guys this year won’t get to play against the other countries, but I’ll still tell them to take everything in and learn as much as they can.”
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Sixteen year olds in the WHL are frequently just finding their way and often having their match-ups and ice time cherry picked by their coach. Leslie and Halaburda are already playing in all situations for Giants bench boss Michael Dyck. They’ll miss four games at the Capital City Challenge, and Vancouver fans will easily note changes in Dyck’s deployment.
“It’s going to be hard to be away from the team, but I’m also excited to go to Ottawa,” Halaburda said. “And I’ll be excited to get back with the boys and play some good hockey.”
Giants general manager Barclay Parneta added: “I hope they both come back even more confident than they’ve shown so far at our level. You can learn so many things in a short time in a tournament like this.”
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Leslie, who was Vancouver’s first pick, No. 10 overall, in the 2020 WHL Draft, got a running start at this year since he was able to spend the entire hub season last spring with Vancouver as an underage call-up due to COVID-19 pushing the WHL season back into the spring and wiping out most of the minor hockey competitions. He scored five goals in 17 games with Vancouver in the hub.
Players in their 15-year-old season are usually permitted just five games as a call-up until their minor hockey season is over.
Leslie has two goals and six points in 15 games so far this time around. He has similarities to Byram, particularly with how he pushes the play offensively. Leslie is improving defensively, making better reads and becoming more and more active with his stick.
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Rookie Ty Halaburda sneaks a peek in the direction of the photographer, while getting lots of love from his teammates, after scoring his first ever Western Hockey League goal against the Kelowna Rockets on Oct. 29. Photo by Rob Wilton
Parneta said that Leslie, a 6-foot-1, 182-pound right-handed shot from Lloydminster, Alta., spends as much time at Vancouver’s Ladner Leisure Centre practice digs as any player on the team.
“I love his compete, I love his confidence. I also love that he’s a student of the game. He wants to learn and get better,” Parneta said.
Halaburda was Vancouver’s second pick in 2020, No. 32 overall. The 5-foot-11, 164-pound right-handed shot from Victoria has two goals and seven points through 15 games. He’s particularly diligent defensively for a young forward.
“He’s a good combination of skill, responsible play, work ethic and determination,” Parenta said.
Parneta also lauds his maturity, saying that “he has leadership qualities even as a young guy.”
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‘Will not stop this repetitive behavior’: Proponents reject $ 200,000 fine for Whitehaven Coal Water Theft | New South Wales
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Nov 25, 2021
Environmentalists have said a $ 200,000 fine issued to the Whitehaven Coal for water theft at its Maules Creek mine near Boggabri “will not stop this repetitive behavior”.
The fine was handed down in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court on Wednesday after the company pleaded guilty to taking $ 1 billion. liters of surface water without permission over three years from 2016 to 2019.
The charges were filed by the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) for violating the Water Management Act and resulted in a maximum penalty of $ 2 million.
The judgment accepted that there had been undefined actual damage to surface water currents and it was likely that there was damage to the vegetation around Back Creek and its aquatic ecology as a result of the offense.
It found that Whitehaven’s non-compliance with the water rules undermined the scheme in a significant way and believed that the seriousness of the offense was at the low end of the middle ground.
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The verdict took into account mitigating circumstances, including Whitehaven’s early admission of guilt and the fact that it had cooperated with the authorities.
“Given my conclusion about objective seriousness and mitigating factors, I believe the appropriate penalty is $ 250,000, which will be reduced by 25% to $ 200,000 in light of the early guilty plea,” it states.
Boggabri farmer Sally Hunter said the fine was not close to reflecting the seriousness of the offense.
“While farmers plowed in their crops and the stock died during the drought, Whitehaven took a billion gallons of water without a license,” she said.
“This water was invaluable at this time and would have been a lifesaver for many farms and businesses.”
The fine is one of a number of breaches Whitehaven has been accused of at its mining sites.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) said this week that it had ordered the company to stop blasting at the Maules Creek site, while investigating seven blasts from the mine that are alleged to have generated unconverted and potentially toxic fumes between October 1, 2021 and November 11, 2021
Earlier this month, the EPA fined the company $ 30,000 for discharging dirty water from a failed sediment dam at its Tarrawonga coal mine near Boggabri.
It was the third alleged discharge of dirty water from the mine, and the EPA said it had found high levels of metal and bicarbonates discharged from the mine site to nearby Goonbri Creek.
Hunter said the fine handed down Wednesday “will not stop this repeated behavior”.
“Ordinary members of the public get far more fines for much less,” she said.
“It is long overdue for the NSW Perrottet government to crack down on mining companies and punish them appropriately for the heinous crimes they commit.”
Whitehaven said in a statement that the verdict had noted that the offense was at the low end of the middle ground and that the case had not established that there had been a negative impact on other aquaculture users.
The company said that there was no claim on the part of NRAR that the passive intake of water was intentional or premeditated, and “it was not established that any significant environmental damage occurred from the passive intake of water”.
“During a two-year study, NRAR thoroughly investigated water management at Maules Creek,” the statement said.
“Whitehaven has previously acknowledged deficiencies in the operation of some of its systems and has made significant progress in implementing measures to improve clean water management in the mine.”
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Grant Barnes, CEO of NRAR, said the water regulator had worked inside and outside the court to remedy the illegal water consumption.
“This verdict must be seen in the context of our complementary work outside the courtroom,” he said.
“In addition to the fine, we have entered into an enforceable commitment with the Maules Creek Coal, which requires it to take a number of actions, including shutting down a dam and updating its biodiversity management plan.”
He said the enforced commitment strengthened Wednesday’s ruling and had been accepted by both parties “as part of the mine operator’s move to a position of water compliance”.
But Georgina Woods, a spokeswoman for Lock the Gate Alliance, said people were “tired of mining companies getting away with serious crimes with insignificant consequences”.
She said it was particularly jarring during a week in which an activist had been sentenced to 12 months in prison for blocking coal trains in the state’s Hunter region.
“It’s hard to see how the public can have confidence in the legislation governing coal mining companies when it so clearly fails to keep the companies in line,” she said.
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The giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, is comparatively well known from Ohio’s Pleistocene sediments, with 15 specimens recorded. This black-bear sized rodent looked similar to modern beaver, Castor canadensis, but was much larger. It has been suggested that giant beaver did not build dams or gnaw on trees, but fed on aquatic vegetation. The first known and described specimen of giant beaver (type specimen) was found near Nashport, Muskingum County, and was illustrated in 1838 by the first Geological Survey of Ohio. Specimens of giant beaver fossils are displayed at the Ohio History Connection.

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The giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, is comparatively well known from Ohio’s Pleistocene sediments, with 15 specimens recorded. This black-bear sized rodent looked similar to modern beaver, Castor canadensis, but was much larger. It has been suggested that giant beaver did not build dams or gnaw on trees, but fed on aquatic vegetation. The first known and described specimen of giant beaver (type specimen) was found near Nashport, Muskingum County, and was illustrated in 1838 by the first Geological Survey of Ohio. Specimens of giant beaver fossils are displayed at the Ohio History Connection.
In addition to modern beaver, Pleistocene sediments in Ohio have produced remains of small mammals such as shrews, bats, red squirrel, tree squirrel, voles, and field mice. Medium-sized mammals include woodchuck, porcupine, muskrat, weasel, pine marten, fisher, mink, skunk, red fox, raccoon, and river otter. Most of these remains have come from cave or bog sites that have been systematically excavated.
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Woodchuck
Red Fox
Fisher
Raccoon
Fossil
Ohio History Connection
Pleistocene Epoch
Muskingum County
Pleistocene Epoch
Geological Survey of Ohio
References
Hansen, M. C., 1996. "Phylum Chordata--Vertebrate Fossils," in Fossils of Ohio, edited by R. M. Feldmann and Merrianne Hackathorn. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Bulletin 70, p. 288-369.


Do you think one day you can command Siri to do an online order in minutes or buy a shirt with just a picture taken by accident while driving on the road? Those are some examples that artificial intelligence (or AI) can bring to the ecommerce future. Since AI has been leveraged for optimizing and enriching the ecommerce experience, the user community has become more proactive when purchasing a product on the internet. Customers gradually have greater confidence in the quality of products and ecommerce services as they can interact much more easily and quickly thanks to the AI applications in every selected product.
1. How customers experience products in traditional shopping
Traditional shopping refers to the way customers directly buy products at stores, markets, or supermarkets. Since that trading model has emerged, the ecommerce experience about products has often originated from direct product-observation and -interaction. A consumer can hold and touch the item directly, feeling its characteristics, such as hardness, softness, size, or even color. They can quickly try one dress and exchange another one for a suitable size. This model has several benefits for shoppers:
Guarantee of product quality: Customers have the opportunity to interact and observe the product directly before buying. At that time, customers can choose a product with complete packaging, favorite colors, or delicious fresh food, or a skirt of a suitable length.
Time-saving in return and exchange policy: The traditional purchase is rooted in the amicable sale principle. Of course, the buyers will be partly responsible for goods quality due to the opportunity to touch and inspect them before buying.
High-satisfaction level: Customers tend to be more enthusiastic and get more exciting feelings when using products. They will not put too much doubt on the reliability of the product.
This face-to-face buying assists shoppers to check the goods mostly
The benefits of experiencing products with traditional models will have many changes in online shopping models. Although customers will enjoy the convenience of freely choosing a suitable item in a wide range of goods at more bargained prices and also experience regular promotions, the limited interaction with the product pre-buying has reduced the convenience as the traditional model did before.
2. AI invention penetrating process to optimize the ecommerce experience
With the rapid development of the digital age, customer demand is a critical factor that is a priority in every development strategy and orientation. In particular, businesses also invest more in modern technologies to optimize consumer-product interaction, and AI applications are a useful option for ecommerce experience optimization process.
AI is a great supporter for users to experience the product fully
Within the Ecommerce field, AI aims to the product experience, contributing to the efficiency of the business’s customer-centric orientation. The AI application has been integrated into search engine systems to support the creative and effective searching process with features such as “search by image” associating with material, shape, size, or brand. The display technology also invests in improving product interaction, shortening the distance between online and offline models.
Moreover, AI supports the ecommerce industry as a knowledgeable online assistant. This technology can bring two-way benefits when supporting both user experience and data analysis about user behavior trends.
Those are the two factors motivating brands to invest in developing more modern and efficient AI platforms towards a smarter, automated model for perfect customer experience.
3. AI trends for smarter ecommerce experiences in the digital age
Since applying to the ecommerce industry, various AI technology types have contributed to significantly changing consumer habits and purchasing decision-making processes, ultimately optimizing the convenience that customers received from online shopping. However, AI tools are continually developing and improving every day to enhance the user experience, and they also regularly stay updated with many popular trends.
Product 3D view
The 3D formats have been practical to enhance more excited customer-product interactions. Customers can observe different product aspects or even try placing a small decoration item at any house location to check the product’s suitability. This invisibility generally creates exciting experiences to increase interaction making customers more interested in the product.
3D technology in real estate and interior enhances the effectiveness of multi-dimensional sense of space which was limited before
Some interior brands have been using 3D scanning technology to perfectly experience interior space and architecture. Based on a provided video, customers can enjoy AR via remotely 3D virtual reality technology.
Mobile virtual reality fitting room
That AI ability can be a perfect solution when a store has too many customers visiting at the same time while the fitting room is overloaded. Customers can scan product images and try them out on a mobile phone screen. This technology is already available on Lacoste’s app, supporting customers to try their favorite shoes freely via their smartphone.
Lacoste’s shoe trying app uses IR and AR technology, supporting the new-arrival models from the brand
The development of 3D and virtual reality technology has proved that nothing is impossible in the digital age. AI development is also a considerable solution for ecommerce barriers, mainly interacting with products when buying online to optimize ecommerce experience.
In the future, as many expert predictions, AI can be a modern and popular trend to optimize the ecommerce experience correctly. However, businesses also need to consider the needs of target customers to have appropriate applications and increase the number of potential customers and loyal customers in the long run.
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Table of Contents
1. Breakthrough ecommerce barriers with customer-centric orientation
2. Set sales goal to prevent cash-flow issues and breakthrough ecommerce barriers
3. Strengthen product policies to breakthrough ecommerce barriers
Misperceptions, weak possibilities, or lack of substantial investment are significant barriers to the ecommerce industry in Vietnam today. However, the long-term effects of old business models now seem to be more accessible. Business owners also focus more on improving the management and operation of the ecommerce complex systems. The shortage of capital has also improved somewhat. To do that is to combine solutions seamlessly, take advantage of the “small rain lays great dust” idea to influence and change consumer habits and perceptions partially, then quickly breakthrough ecommerce barriers.
1. Breakthrough ecommerce barriers with customer-centric orientation
Customer-centric orientation can significantly improve the problems that consumers are suffering from shopping online. This orientation is correctly a long-term process to breakthrough ecommerce barriers, follows the business for a lifetime, creates brand values as a result, and other measurable values, such as highly-appreciated customer feedback, increasing the number of products sold.
At first glance, customer-centric orientation looks quite general and tends to imply intangible values. However, the “customer-in-center” mindset can generate both cognitive and measurable values. Before it can create measurable values, the business needs to have a clear awareness and specific purpose of this orientation, maintaining it as a unified business culture.
The customer-centric mindset produces lifetime values for both businesses and customers
To get started, be customer-friendly in all aspects—organizations at first need to analyze the customer community’s needs and insights. Customer feedback, including limitations from existing products/services on the market, service quality, promotion campaigns, is the foremost factor to consider. Proactively getting customer feedback on products and services is all valuable information; thus, organizations will have time to complete both product systems and customer service.
It is an equally critical factor that improving user interface can produce oriented rather than product-centric. Many businesses assumed that the “good wine needs no bush” developing style would naturally create attraction itself. Indeed, this style is not wrong; however, it is still not powerful enough in the long run. Proactively taking care of customers, receiving the limitations of existing products are the fastest steps to improve producing more appropriate products. Products tailored to the needs make customers perfectly comfortable in the user experience.
2. Set sales goal to prevent cash-flow issues and breakthrough ecommerce barriers
To breakthrough ecommerce barriers effectively, one of the critical things is to set clear business goals. It is difficult to predict future fluctuations; however, proactively create realistic goals and prepare everything to achieve them. Businesses can start from their monthly goals about the cost, revenue, or market share achieved, then set out tasks to achieve the goal instead of declaring the whole year’s goals with an incredible number that no one could ever reach.
The sales goal needs to be a month-to-month process instead of a whole-year forgotten promise
Besides, sales goals can give great support to an organization’s financial problem. In particular, the cash-flow factor should not become the only weapon that businesses abuse to invest endless-capital for ecommerce races. The fact has proved that enormous capital investments have made a large number of SMEs miserable. Meanwhile, ecommerce giants have received sponsorship from well-known global ecommerce organizations. They have been ready to run.
3. Strengthen product policies to breakthrough ecommerce barriers
The ecommerce market needs to tighten product policies to deal more effectively with fake or low inferior quality products. This reason is the most significant issue without any practical solutions, and it also comes from both sellers, ecommerce enterprises, and consumers. Vendors are for-profit; businesses cannot control the stores; consumers prefer low prices despite good-quality; all of them are potential factors making the issue of fake goods, counterfeit goods more widespread.
To temporarily deal with the issue of inferior quality goods, it is necessary to focus on developing return and exchange policies and accompanying preferential policies. Businesses should quickly recall counterfeit or error products if the customer has received the product, give back customers an authentic one, and may come with a discount voucher for the next purchase. This reaction shows the attitude of the proactive settlement of businesses, as well as keeps customers calm.
Return and exchange policies contribute to customer’s trustworthy enhancement
On the other hand, to maintain the product and brand values in the long term, there should be a permanent policy in product quality assurance, product censorship policy before officially selling products online—for example, the ecommerce website TIKI.VN has done well when ready to commit a 111% refund if found counterfeit, simultaneously also completed the product quality assurance process before officially opening for sale on the website.
Additionally, other ecommerce businesses also make commitments to supply genuine products much more firmly. However, this is just an effort from one side; ecommerce businesses can only fulfill their role and work to ease the issues, not the most radical solution because counterfeit or inferior quality goods had originated from when traditional trading existed. In terms of a holistic approach, significant efforts from every consumer are essential, in other words, personal consciousness. This effort is quite complicated and needs to come first from the family and society’s educational process to form consciousness in human growth and personal development.
A high sense of quality will be the most comprehensive solution, whether from consumers, sellers, or businesses, which can then create more weighty policies that maximally protect consumers’ interests not only in ecommerce but also in all other economic sectors. Comprehensive policies will significantly eliminate inferior quality goods step by step to breakthrough ecommerce barriers.
Customers, cash flow, and product quality are the keys to determining the success of an ecommerce system, also affecting many other aspects. Therefore, to do breakthrough ecommerce barriers is to come first from the leading foundations and create synergy for removing existing barriers.
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1. Quality of goods – one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry
The seller’s consciousness
The perception of ecommerce enterprises
The buying awareness
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1. Quality of goods – one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry
The variety of products published on every ecommerce website is always diversity-guaranteed to meet almost the market needs. However, ensuring the criteria of goods quality has been an unresolved question up to now, becoming one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry. The burning issues of low-quality products, counterfeit consumer goods are eventually uncontrollable and exist in the market. Those effects can be derived from a couple of factors that can be analyzed from the perspective of the sellers, ecommerce enterprises, and consumers.
Low-quality products are considered to be the factor that most affects the business-reputation
The seller’s consciousness
The low-quality of goods has come from the traditional trading model operated offline, and merchants inevitably take responsibility in that case. Although consumers can contemplate the offline model seriously, the product quality is still sellers’ responsibility and control. Uncontrollable-quality sources become a critical issue when merchants provide goods with a profitable price to get much higher returns by selling fake or inferior quality products with very attractively “low” prices. In the flourishing process of online business, those unsolved issues have the chance to spread across the online-offline frontier and lose control.
The perception of ecommerce enterprises
When the quality issue emerges, e-firms are the first to be impacted. Those types, namely B2C and C2C, act as middlemen for merchant support to sell products on ecommerce exchanges.
Consequently, those enterprises restrict the source of inferior products and entirely rely on consumer feedback to address the issue in a very passive way. The quality barrier prevents enterprises from gaining consumer trust to maintain their loyalty.
The buying awareness
The spread of low-quality goods partly comes from consumer awareness. In the e-market, there is still a consumer group preferring inexpensive or on-sales items to other high-price and authentic products to save the living cost or try a variety of products. They tend to choose low-price items neglecting the origin and information while never complaining about the lack of product-clarification. Low-awareness behavior gradually contributes to the growth of uncontrollable-inferior products and as a result, the development of barriers to the ecommerce industry.
The growth of poor quality products depends on many factors and the responsibility of sellers, businesses, and consumers for the sake of a healthy and trustworthy market.
2. Buying habits – one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry
The need to change buying behavior from offline to online is also one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry in Vietnam. To certainly clarify, take a look at three fundamental behavior-levels happenings when consumers make a purchase.
The personas buying process has eventually constructed unchangeable habits of customers
The first group is pure traditional shoppers, who tend to see and touch what to buy. They wholeheartedly believe their eye-process can ensure more quality and conformity of the product. Therefore, they never trust any online items because of unmanageable-value. As a consequence, changing the buying habit of this group is the most challenging requirement.
The second group is hybrid buyers combining traditional and modern buying styles. That hybrid group tends to select-for-best. For instance, they can quickly add a book or ten pens to their cart because it is more convenient than buying at the bookstore. However, they will directly go to a clothing store to choose an item that fits their size and ensure the fabric quality. That behavior similarly happens when they buy shoes, bags, or other fashion items. In brief, hybrid customers have changed their buying habits in the most popular fields over the years. Hence, there will be much higher requirements for unique products such as fashion items, technology devices, motorcycles, and cars in some cases.
The last group tends to complete online shopping. They take advantage of online shopping as a convenient and speedy tool, helping them save more time during the shopping process. However, this group still has some challenges: maintaining trust-worthy and credibility to upgrade target consumers to loyal customers.
While the increasing mobile-usage has somewhat raised the online shopping demand, the user-habit transformation is a worth-factor that needs better solutions in long-term strategies or it will be one of the barriers to the ecommerce industry. In particular, the significant element affecting ecommerce user-habit is the story of quality-expectation and the reliability of online stores.
3. Barriers to the ecommerce industry in Vietnam include long-term investment
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Most ecommerce enterprises spend massive capital inflows in the long run
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In general, the capital investment race invisibly makes large ecommerce businesses more robust and extensive. Meanwhile, it oppositely generates more barriers to the ecommerce industry in Vietnam due to the lack of sufficient capital in the long term. Following this, depending on each organization, there will be many issues when operating an e-business. Therefore, it is necessary to have the most comprehensive outline and meticulous ecommerce study to set the oriented developing goals.
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2. Highly-recommended platforms should apply for ecommerce businesses in Vietnam
Magento
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Disadvantages
Shopify
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1. The developing process of ecommerce businesses in Vietnam
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Ecommerce industry has undergone a long development process
Over time, businesses want to increase productivity by selling products while saving costs and facilities. On the other hand, customers also need to buy products faster without directly going to the store. That is the reason leading to the birth of ecommerce.Today, the flash development of ecommerce allows businesses to easily access the market while increasing the opportunity to maximize user experience. In Vietnam, the ecommerce market has only been growing in recent years but has made a breakthrough with prominent brands like Shopee, Tiki, and Lazada.
2. Highly-recommended platforms should apply for ecommerce businesses in Vietnam
Magento
Magento has excellent functions, which highly create flexibility and adaptability, accommodating all sizes of ecommerce businesses in Vietnam. However, Magento is not very friendly for beginners. Instead, the platform has a massive range of features that are adaptive for almost the user-community.
Advantages
Optimize search engines and security
Include a variety of features supporting the sale and management of products
Support multiple currencies, languages
Integrate most of the payment gateways
SEO-friendly
Disadvantages
Only suitable for users having a basic understanding of code and web systems
Require payments for extensions
Woocommerce
WooCommerce is not an autonomous platform to build an ecommerce website. It is a type of plugin running on WordPress. In other words, WooCommerce will optimize ecommerce functions for the website community based on the WordPress foundation. Thus, enterprises can start an online development plan in a more accessible and faster way.Utterly different from Magento, WooCommerce is more comfortable to use, especially suitable for beginners. Plus, it also possesses enough extensions handling almost basic tasks from product management to payment methods that can bring a website to the top ecommerce business in Vietnam.
Advantages
Provide free editions
Quickly access to extend features and customize the store
Have strong support from a large user community
Disadvantages
Advanced features often require extensions
Extensions may need the other sub-extensions to support
Shopify
Pick up enormous scores from users; Shopify possesses the functions to integrate SEO, supporting the website system work, and customize fluidly. It also provides services based on the SaaS model with the main control center.
Advantages
Convey a considerable range of themes that can be selected depending on each category
Support users 24/7
Integrate ads and payment gateways via Visa, Mastercard, and other payments
Disadvantages
Require payment when using
Request to use the available URLs
Not support domestic payment gateways yet
Not support Vietnamese yet (High-consideration if businesses plan to develop ecommerce businesses in Vietnam)
Haravan
Haravan is an open platform allowing easy website creation with similar characteristics to Shopify and WordPress. The platform possesses various features providing more conveniently supportive sales-management tools, especially the multi-channel sale on ecommerce websites, namely Lazada, Shopee, and Tiki.
Advantages
Allow users to develop a variety of functions
Have an inexpensive cost
Support the Vietnamese language
Disadvantages
Require payments when using some of the extensions
Run as a local platform that is highly suitable for SMEs in Vietnam
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Table of Contents
1. The growth of e-business in Vietnam
2. Opportunities for e-business in Vietnam when Amazon enters the market
3. Challenges from the penetration
Having a large market share worldwide, Amazon takes a powerful attraction when targeting the Vietnamese market. The Amazon presence carries out both opportunities and challenges for the e-business in Vietnam. Since then, there have been plenty of opinions assuming that Amazon aims at stimulating the market competition among Alibaba (Lazada), JD.com (Tiki), or Shopee (an ecommerce giant from Singapore).
1. The growth of e-business in Vietnam
One of the factors stimulating e-business growth is the high demand for the internet, in which Vietnam is the top-country in terms of internet users. Therefore, online selling has a fast-growing rate with impressive recorded statistics and contributes to the country’s market economy in many ways. The following is the large-scale blooming of e-business in Vietnam.
Besides, online businesses can easily access the market while just using about 1/10 of the marketing channels’ cost. Low advertising costs have increased the popularity of online sales, which grows not only on the domestic scale but also globally.
Impressive recorded statistics have shown the blooming era of ecommerce
Since 2016, e-businesses in Vietnam have undergone significant breakthroughs by cooperating with international partners, making businesses participate in the e-business market, and marking the premise for the outstanding growth of e-businesses at present.
2. Opportunities for e-business in Vietnam when Amazon enters the market
The Amazon penetration into the Vietnam market has come up with new opportunities for a huge community of e-business in Vietnam. The country has a strong potential for traditional handicrafts, which are considered unique and ideal for selling online. With that strength, Vietnam will promote domestic products to international markets at competitive prices.
Under the support of Amazon Global Selling, Vietnam brands can integrate with international e-markets with significant growth, which is a step toward the digital economy in Vietnam.
Vietnam has expertise in producing goods, so Amazon Global Selling’s participation meaningfully contributes to accelerating the market-expanding process for both international partners and consumers. That contribution can boost the working process for Vietnamese businesses and the ecommerce market share of the economy.
3. Challenges from the penetration
Besides wide-open opportunities, e-business in Vietnam quite faces significant challenges from the Amazon advent. Firstly, Amazon makes domestic ecommerce in the face of fierce competition. The Vietnam market had welcomed Alibaba previously. Nevertheless, it was not overly ambitious because large enterprises had their proven capability in this field, namely Shopee, Tiki, Sendo. However, the long-term race invisibly extends a boundary for SMEs to cross over or get close to the same level.
The penetration not only brings the opportunities, but challenges
Secondly, publishing products in the international ecommerce field increases expenses. The more giants join the ecommerce game, the more earnestly and competitively the race of spending money becomes. However, plenty of e-businesses focus on the spending process of selling 1 billion dollars of goods without having correct forecasts on long-term expenses. In the long run, over-spending will require more investment, affecting the bottom-line growth, namely the businesses’ net profits.
On the other hand, the origin and quality of goods need to be guaranteed. Regarding the current ecommerce market in Vietnam, fake or counterfeit products have not been solved thoroughly up to now. As a result, selling on Amazon will face restrictions if businesses can not control their goods’ quality. Simultaneously, it requires policies from the government to promote ethical businesses within the Vietnamese economy.
In general, Amazon has created a new breeze for e-business in Vietnam. It plays a vital role in stimulating market competitiveness, improving product quality, and user experience for great customer-oriented support. However, to do that, businesses need to have the right strategies in addressing challenges and difficulties to shorten the cooperation process with both partners and international customers.