The trend of online shopping is increasing significantly. What effect on the environment and society in general?

With the advance of up-to-date technology, it seems that online shopping has become an upward trend in many regions.

This

essay will

further

examine how

this

substitution of traditional purchasing habits leaves both positive and negative impacts on the environment and the community, respectively.

Firstly

, many people believe there will be less storage footprint thanks to

trading

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trade

via the Internet.

Accordingly

, online shops will transport goods directly from their warehouses to customer’s private homes without consuming a considerable amount of electricity and water to maintain a

third

-party showroom.

However

,

this

results in the outburst of door-to-door service, which requires more means of transportation involved in the shipping process.

For instance

, traditional purchasing of imported lychee used to demand only voyage. Meanwhile, apart from sea transportation, a railroad system is

also

indispensable in

this

process if the fruit is

technology

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a technology

-based trading.

Consequently

, it means more fossil

fuel is burnt

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fuel, burns

fuel burns

to run these voyages, buses and private vehicles, causing an alerting threat

to

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in

the air.

Similarly

,

this

trend affects the society on two sides. Positively, it reduces household expense, since taxes applied on items sold on the Internet are cheaper than on markets. Take a bed in sale on Amazon

for example

, it is only priced

as

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at

half as it should be in physical shops.

On the other hand

, searching goods via social media guarantees no quality security for customers. Without a hands-on examination, it is uncertain the delivered one will be what it was promoted on the website.

As a result

, a loss of money is what purchasers get depends on their fortune. In conclusion, it appears clearly that online shopping influence the environment and people in different ways. Despite its pros and cons, there is no sign of

this

influance

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

influence

to be outdated in the upcoming future.