What is Taobao category?

Taobao category refers to the classification of goods, which refers to the collection of goods within the management scope according to certain management purposes to meet all or part of the needs of commodity production, circulation and consumption activities.

Taking the selected basic characteristics of commodities as classification marks, it is gradually summarized into several subsets (categories) with smaller scope and more consistent characteristics. The main categories are virtual, clothing, accessories, beauty, digital, home, maternal and child, food, sports, service and insurance.

Extended data

Basic functions: E-commerce platform can standardize and guide all the stores in the system through the classification of goods, which is helpful for online shoppers to quickly locate the goods and services they need.

It promotes the pace of e-commerce era. It has greatly facilitated people's demand for material consumption and even the distribution of means of production, and played a considerable role.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Commodity Classification

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