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Equality
platforms. Also equity refers to
ensuring that all have an equal
opportunity to participate in a cooperative
and by means of opening an
online shop this will enable potential
customers to finally gain access to
supporting the co-operative movement.
Sewing co-operatives are largely run
by women and elderly members of the
community. This is also a common
trend in states supporting and having
popular co-operative movements. What
online factory shops would do for cooperatives
is attracting different
members of the global community and
local people to supporting and buying
from responsible clothing
manufacturers such as sewing cooperatives.
In line with the Sustainable
Development Goals is buying from cooperatives,
but, how if the movement is
localized only to certain communities?
The online factory shops answer the
question of reachability of the cooperative
movement which has built a
name for itself in terms of creating
equality in society by involving the
poor, the rich, young, old and disabled.
The success of online factory shops is also dependent on
several other abilities of a co-operative. This includes the
selling of unique products and which can also draw the
co-operative closer to the global market (Fahy & Jobber,
202015:307). The following section is a conclusion of
this research paper.
V. CONCLUSION
E-commerce has achieved growth in the retail
sector in the early and late 2000s and was also adopted
by the manufacturers of well-known brands such as
Nike.com [23] and others, which were more interested in
selling their products directly to the market and to other
businesses. Integrating the supply chain members such as
distributors and shipping companies will be of great
importance for any small to medium-sized manufacturer
planning to launch an e-factory shop [33]. Decisions on
designing information systems to support the e-factory
shop has will have a direct impact on the success of the
e-factory shop and the systems engineers and online shop
design specialists may explore and engage in this
opportunity of working with cooperatives which are
socially driven enterprises as opposed to being only
profit driven [34]. In conclusion e-commerce is
developing faster and improvements to its safety are also
making it more attractive to different size businesses, in
case of small to medium-size sewing cooperatives around
the world an establishment of an e-factory shop would
grant them access to a larger market of corporate buyers
and individual consumers who believe in the cause of
cooperatives [36]and this may increase their sales and
improve their sewing operating processes as well as their
business performance from both the market and financial
perspective.
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