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

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there has been
sudden
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increase
on
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shopping over
internet
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and
this
trend
may lead to
closing
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the closing
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of
shops
in towns and cities. In my opinion, yes
traditional
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way of shopping will change in future and the stores to survive must adapt to
this
changing
trend
.
Firstly
, Due to affordability and better reach of
internet
connection, people can browse
internet
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using any electronic device which has the capability to connect with
internet
.
This
had allowed companies to develop websites and mobile applications, where they can host their products and customer can browse and
chose
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from
it
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them
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.
This
approach had helped companies to save operational
cost
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costs
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which included shop rent, distributor
cost
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costs
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and staff to manage the various
shops
.
For example
, Amazon is one of the largest online retail
website
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and they don’t have any retail stores over the country, because they directly ship their product to the end customer, who had placed their order over
internet
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.
Secondly
, the online shopping
trend
will slowly push the brick-and-mortar stores in small towns and cities to close, as they can’t compete with discounted
price
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prices
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provide
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by the online retail websites. But traditional retail
shops
can adapt to
this
changing
trend
and introduce better shopping experiences for the customers. To exemplify, The Nike footwear brand has retail
shops
all over the country and they
also
provide flexibility to shop through their online website, which helps customers to browse through
various
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the various
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collection
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collections
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of footwear and place an order using the website and collect the footwear
form
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shop as per their convince. To conclude, online shopping is here to stay and there will be more innovations to enhance and
simply
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the end-users shopping experience, but traditional
shops
with better adaptability can survive and grow too.
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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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