Nowadays online shopping is rapidly replacing physical shopping in stores. Do the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, in your view?
Shopping online through the internet is relatively increasing in current times and substituting the traditional way of in-person shopping at malls. While there are minimal demerits in the form of commodity mismatch or not meeting the quality standards at times, the benefits of
this
phenomenon outweigh the drawbacks because of increased convenience, cost-effectiveness to both customers and businesses.
There are two important demerits of online purchase but ignorable. The primary one being, sometimes it is observed that wrong products are being delivered at doorstep due to logistics issues. Recent order placed by us for a flexible table for my child homework, Linking Words
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, customers have to compromise with non-standard quality products keeping challenges of return or replacement policies in mind. It takes around 7 to 10 business days, Linking Words
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The internet revolution has brought greater advantages to consumer and businesses. Complete eradication of travel to the physical shopping malls has saved stupendous costs to the purchaser. A typical family, Linking Words
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saves the shopping mall establishment costs to businesses as the items can be directly transferred from the warehouses. Giant E-Commerce companies across the globe, Linking Words
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, Flipkart, Amazon are not maintaining any physical stores other than warehouses.
To conclude, the internet-enabled procurement of goods has been increasing rapidly and eventually replacing physical stores. There are some ignorable demerits to these changes like product quality compromises, wrong product deliveries at times. Linking Words
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic
IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.
Answer structure for the type of essay
- Introduction
- Body paragraph 1 – advantages
- Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
- Conclusion
Examples to start your body paragraph:
- The main advantage is...
- The disadvantage of this...
- The main benefit...
- Despite these advantages...
- One possible drawback...