Joking aside, this is just one example of the advantages an online retailer has over its traditional counterpart, the brick and mortar companies such as the grocery store on the street corner.

Doing most of its work on a computer and in cyberspace, online firms don’t need to pay for building warehouses or paying rent for offices. This allows them to have more money for research and paying employees higher salaries and benefits.

This is why in our question, the person wonders why online companies are growing faster and earning more.

It’s a sign of the times. Technology has made it happen, a phenomenon a person older than 60 years of age may still find hard to fathom. One of my recently retired colleagues, for example, still wants her daughter to stay in her liquor company rather than move to an online firm, even if liquor sales have suffered a blow in light of a crackdown on government employees spending public money on expensive banquets, even if she has an offer, wants to go, To the dad, e-commerce, cyberspace and virtual reality all sound, in his words, “unreal and unstable”.

Perhaps, as a compromise, she can set up a Tao Bao shop selling the same liquor for her old company.

Anyways, you get the point of difference between brick and mortar and the upstart online companies.

By the way, according to Wikipedia, “brick and mortar” was “originally used by Charles Dickens in the book Little Dorrit.”

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