Have you ever thought that you would be able to do shopping without even stepping a foot outside your home? Online shopping has become more convenient than traditional shopping, making consumers more comfortable and satisfied while purchasing goods and services, whereas a group of people considers that online shopping technology does not serve consumers in a positive and favorable way. In this essay, we will defend why online shopping is more reliable than physical shopping.
Online shopping is a digital commerce mode, which is becoming very common worldwide. It is the activity or action of buying products or services over the internet. Through the internet, people have become able to buy in retail or in wholesale, products using their laptops, or phones, accessing a vast range of products, and services.
Online shopping provides several benefits. To begin with, people who frequently shop over the internet, reveal that having such a shopping mode strongly saves their time. In other words, with only a few clicks, you are able to order goods or services, then the order you had placed would reach your doorstep after a certain time. Besides, it is very resilient to shop online. Internet users can shop through the internet at any time and anywhere, unlike traditional shopping. Online stores are always open and available, you can effectuate your shopping process at any time that suits you, early in the morning, or late at night, it does not matter at all. Additionally, e-shopping is energy-saving, which means without even initiating a small move outside your home, you can get the goods you are looking for.
The opponents of e-shopping state that it is terrible to buy stuff through online sites. First, it is factual that there are some online shopping websites that are simply fake, and they pretend to sell very cheap items, while they are scamming users’ data heartlessly. Moreover, the products that are exhibited online, and are represented through images, may not have the same quality as it is shown on the product’s image, so the buyer can easily be deceived. Although there are some shopping platforms that fool people, we can use other online markets that have good reputation, and are well-known such as Amazon, AliExpress …
It has become much easier to purchase goods and services from your comfort zone. You no longer need to hit the road towards a traditional market, you can buy things smartly through the internet, saving time and energy.
By Oussama LAKHTIRI
S3 Department of English Studies
Chouaib Doukkali University of El Jadida