Community stores that adopt the idea of offline sales developed by TAOBAO.COM have expanded to nine in Beijing. Upon the application from online sellers TAOBAO will go to inspect and evaluate their goods. Sellers who pass the inspection will be authorized to use TAOBAO brand in their offline stores, which would be called TAOBAO community stores. A community store has mainly two functions, consignment and procurement service. Its main purpose is to help those who don’t have convenient access to internet to sell the idle articles or to purchase goods on their behalf. Buyers just have to go directly to those purchase agencies to take the parcel that has already been checked and signed by purchase agencies.