Buying things on the internet such as books, air tickets, groceries are becoming now more and more popular, do the advantages of shopping this way outweigh the disadvantages?

Shopping is an essential activity that literally everybody participates in at one or more point or the other in their lives. Buying things on the

internet

on the other hand

, is an activity of choice and people do it for various reasons, ranging from buying personal or work items, to gifts for other people all of which are important. How often people do

this

Accept comma addition

this, although

although

, can depend on

preferability

the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

profitability

, how much

time

they have among so many other things. In

this

essay I'll be examining both the advantages and disadvantages of buying things on the

internet

and at the end I'll explain why I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. A number of things can be considered advantages of shopping via the

internet

, people, especially youths buy things on the

internet

because of comfortability, you can get anything you want

at

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on

your doorstep without breaking a sweat, literally. Another advantage is that the gap between available products and buyers that need them is getting slimmer, it is easier to look for and actually find the particular item you want to purchase, on your phone or laptop, than it is moving from stall to stall.

Also

, it is

time

conserving, you can spend the

time

you would have used to go buying things physically at malls to get other things like reading, working

etc

of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"

its

done.

This

method of shopping

also

has

it's

of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"

its

disadvantages, as expected. One of which

are

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is

dishonesty of online vendors and their team about issues like money, estimated delivery

time

and so on. There is

also

the chance of discrepancies between the item you ordered for, and the item you get at the end of the day. A lot of people in my generation, myself included, don't like stress, so you'd find them opting for the easiest method to get things done, shopping included. And there are ways to reduce those disadvantages to a minimum, you could ask for reviews about a particular vendor online before patronising them, especially if you're doing it for the

first

time

. You can stick to the tested and trusted vendors you know. All these measures can guarantee smooth online shopping experience, to an extent. And

this

is why I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, a lot of the

time

. Conclusively, like I said in the beginning, shopping via the

internet

still remains a choice and not absolutely

every thing

all things

everything

you need will be available online, that could be because a lot of sellers are not keeping up with advancing technology, so there are times that you would still have to get the things you need physically.