TikTok Introduce New E-Commerce Strategy to Compete With Amazon, Other Big Tech Companies
By Movieguide® Staff
According to a new report, TikTok plans to build a system of e-commerce facilities in the U.S. and directly compete with Amazon.
Axios reported:
TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system that could directly challenge Amazon, as indicated by more than a dozen new job openings posted in the past two weeks to LinkedIn.
While the company noted that they will start in the U.S., TikTok referred to their new plans as an “international e-commerce fulfillment system.”
TikTok, a video-sharing platform that boasts over 1 billion monthly active users, made clear its next ventures to gain revenue.
The company is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing.
According to one job listing posted on LinkedIn, TikTok referred to the new buildings as “TikTok Shop.”
“By providing warehousing, delivery, and customer service returns, our mission is to help sellers improve their operational capability and efficiency, provide buyers a satisfying shopping experience and ensure fast and sustainable growth of TikTok Shop,” the company wrote in one job listing.
According to Axios, TikTok’s skyrocket to the top of social media apps has already outshone Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.
Axios reported that e-commerce could also “pose a threat to companies like Amazon and Google that rely on intent-based search advertising to drive business on their shopping platforms.”
Unfortunately, TikTok’s previous expansion efforts have resulted in safety concerns for young users and a lack of transparency from the tech company.
Movieguide® previously reported on TikTok’s introduction of TikTok Live:
In a recent article published in Forbes, writer Alexandra S. Levine highlighted how TikTok allows and encourages sexual abuse of minors, especially young girls.
The article titled “How TikTok Live Became’ A Strip Club Filled With 15-Year-Olds'” outlined how TikTok users exploit young girls for sexual photos and videos in exchange for petty cash.
Levine notes that comments like “$35 for a flash,” and “I’m 68 and you owe me one,” are common requests from male users to female minors on the video-sharing platform.
“These exchanges did not take place between adults at a nightclub; they took place on TikTok Live, where MJ, who said she was 14 years old, was broadcasting with friends to 2,000 strangers on a recent Saturday night,” Levine wrote.
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