Topic 263: More and more people do online shopping.

Why is this the

situation? What is the effect of online shopping on shops and communities?

Today, there is a growing trend among people towards doing online shopping.
This essay aims to analyze the reasons for and some effects of it on shops and
communities.

With the advancement of Internet, online shopping was invented and nowadays,
becomes popular. There are two primary reasons. Firstly, it is clear that shopping
via Internet is convenient for people. To be specific, while many people,
especially whose home located quite far from commercial areas, prefer going out
of home to get to the markets, supermarkets or grocery stores and buy food,
goods or something then come back home again, which takes for hours to do so.
Instead, doing online shopping can help those save time and also money spent on
fuel for vehicles. Second, online shopping contributes to protecting individuals
from potential danger. In fact, many traffic accidents happen due to loads of
traffic. Obviously, there is every likelihood that offline shoppers may be at risk of
having accidents. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is advisable that
people around the globe avoid gathering in groups and stay at home to protect
themselves.

Acceptable though the above reasons may sound, there are some adverse
consequences. Online shoppers may stand a chance of being cheated by online
sellers. They will receive fake or low-qualified goods and likely to lose an
amount of money, for example. Another effect is that this type of commerce can
make the other stores, markets or supermarkets stand a chance of going into
liquidation owing to the fact that the stores' masters of those may lose a large
number of customers who change their mind to opt for online shopping.

In conclusion, there are two reasons for this issue, which is a real problems that
needs an urgent solution so as to put an end to several dire repercussions of doing
online shopping.

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