The growth of online shopping will one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.

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The argument that the growth of online shopping, in the rest of the essay e-shopping is used, will lead to shut down all shops in town and cities in n
ear future,
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the near future
is not absolutely true. I don’t agree with that, and in the coming essay I will depict it. On the
one
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hand, some people claim that e-shopping will dominate the whole market in the coming few years. Due to tremendous advancement in computers, smartphones, and internet world, all these r
esult
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results
in easy access to online shops, and compare prices and qualities of the products you wish for while you’re holding your smartphone. And all it needs is to log into their website, write a request and order within f
ew hours
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a few hours
it will be delivered anywhere you desire! When it comes to e-shopping mainstays, companies like Amazon, and Alibaba come to mind. Amazon is number
one
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in U
SA stock
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the USA stock
(s) market surpassing giant Tech. Companies; Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and its o
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(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
owner
power
is the richest man on the planet.
On the other hand
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, some believe that ordinary shops will continue to play its role in the future. I bolster
this
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argument. In the beginning of 2019 the giant e-shopping Alibaba made unprecedented profit 39 billion USD in
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day!
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,
this
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colossal profit is considered a deduction from o
rdinary shopping share
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an ordinary shopping share
ordinary shopping shares
in the market, it will never eliminate (threat the existence of) ordinary shops. Recently, when I was about to buy e
xternal flash drive
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an external flash drive
I leaned to the internet, compared prices between various websites, and picked the cheapest
one
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, but I found a better price in
one
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of the shops while I was h
angging
decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
hanging
out with friends and I went for it at the end! The bottom line — from my point of view — is, to have both e-shopping and ordinary shops work together, in order to encourage a competition which will l
eads
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lead
to a reasonable-price shopping in favour of costumers. Enabling options to choose f
rom which
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from, which
result in enforcing (boosting) country’s economy.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • e-commerce
  • brick-and-mortar
  • physical stores
  • online retailers
  • retail apocalypse
  • digital economy
  • consumer behavior
  • sustainability
  • commercial landscape
  • high-street
  • consumer trends
  • augmented reality
  • showrooms
  • carbon footprint
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