Te growth of online shopping will one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing. Do you agree or disagree?

In the

last

decades, one of the benefits of access to the Internet was the possibility to buy whatever it is needed online. With a complete service from choosing products by photo and videos to fast delivery, online shopping is now an option and it has increasingly become a preference.

However

, there is a preoccupation that

this

new service might close all the shops in towns and cities, and I tend to agree with

this

statement.

Firstly

, online shopping offers multiple conveniences for customers, which stimulates frequent and impulse buying.

For instance

, one is able to navigate through different shopping websites and choose different products from different

stores

in a shorter period of time.

Otherwise

doing the same path personally, one might feel tired and have

second

thoughts that would prevent

further

purchases.

Secondly

, bigger

stores

are capable of sustain better structures and find profit because the volume of sellings worths the investment. An example of

that is

online

stores

that only need to keep the storage of products, a small team responsible for communication and advertisement and delivery services. They can sell more with little adaptation in their chain.

Lastly

, by the same reasons mentioned before, shops in towns and especially small businesses have high costs with a physic store. It is difficult to profit without the leverage for attracting buyers

such

as the facilities of e-commerce.

For instance

, a shop's earnings must cover employees' payments, rent, light energy, product importation at lower quantities and rely on customers that prefer to buy personally, which numbers have been dropping. In conclusion, the facilities of online might overcome what physical

stores

have to offer and, with no surprise, the market competition tends to diminish weaker competitors.