Assignment #1 -- Article Summary on E-commerce and Covide-19 Pandemic

The covid-19 pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on the world economy. Millions of jobs have been lost, retail sales have declined, the hospitality industry has stopped entertaining, just to name a few. However, on the other hand, e-commerce has been one of the few bright spots in the overall economy, with "The first quarter 2022 e-commerce estimate increased 6.6 percent (1.1%) from the first quarter of 2021 while total retail sales increased 10.9 percent (0.4%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2022 accounted for 14.3 percent of total sales."*

Assignment #1 expects you to --

• find an article from The Wall Street Journal (limit your search field withinThe Wall Street Journal unless you do not find any satisfactory articles; check with your instructor to obtain permission under this circumstance).
• your chosen article must be relevant to subjects of e-commerce, e-business model, e-commerce infrastructure, e-commerce Apps, e-commerce security, e-commerce marketing, ethical issues in e-commerce, social issues in e-commerce, political issues in e-commerce, etc.

Other expectations for Assignment #1 Article Summary:

In the first paragraph of your article summary, you must let your readers know what they are about to experience or inform them that they are about to read a summary of an article. To deliver this message to them, you must list the following four pieces of information:

• source origin (i.e., The Economist)
• Issue or date of that article published (i.e., August 27, 2015)
• author name (i.e., Cliff Edwards; also, there are cases where no author's name is listed for an article, then you should state the fact as it is)
• article title (i.e., "Marketing in the digital age A brand new game")

Lastly, you should reference your chosen article at the end of your article summary again, either by providing a web link to that article or providing a copy of that article in a separate file. Because your instructor must read your chosen article first before reviewing your article summary.