City Space: S2: Episode 5

How online shopping is changing our city streets – and what comes next.

Overview

City Space: S2: Episode 5 is the podcast which states how streets in the cities are getting affecting
by online shopping. And in order to change that few steps and measures are taken which are
explained further.

Introduction to Online Shopping

The e-commerce or electronic commerce is the online service

It is used by the people to purchase things online without going to the main streets.

Pros of E-commerce

 24/7 available

 Wide range of customers choice

 It saves time

 Cost effective

 Discounts and coupons are easily available

Traditional Shopping

 It is the type of shopping that people or individual can do by going to the streets or shop directly.

 It includes offline shopping such as stores and shops.

 People or individual can test the product before purchasing.

Impact of Online shopping on Street shopping

 It hampers or affects business of local shopkeepers.

 It negatively affects the profit margin of traditional retailers.

 It affects the standard of living of traditional retailers.

CONCLUSION

In nutshell it can be said that online shopping adversely affect the traditional shopping.

Also online shopping must be limited as we must also do some traditional shopping so that
standard of living of traditional retailers could be maintained.
Source

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-city-space-podcast/