In recent years, online shopping has become increasingly popular. Some people think such a shopping method is beneficial, while others believe it creates more problems than it solves. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

The usage of the internet has made it possible for humans to do almost all sorts of activities by using online platforms and

therefore

the virtual medium of buying

things

is gaining ground with

time

. Some opine that a lot of benefits are rendered due to

this

trend while some others believe that more problems than the ones resolved are caused due to it. Both sides will be discussed with appropriate reasoning in the upcoming paragraphs.

First

,

people

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these days lead a hectic lifestyle. They do not have much

time

to go to the market and buy essentials on regular basis ;

hence

, for

such

people, the availability of applications and websites to shop

things

from the comfort of their homes acts as a boon. As per the survey conducted by a government organisation to assess the shopping habits of citizens, the percentage of habitants who preferred to visit the local shops at least once in a week reduced by 60% in the

last

decade because of the increasing popularity of shopping applications and sites

such

as Amazon, Flipcart, and Shopper's com. And most of them had reasoned

this

behaviour of theirs by saying that they have a busy life and cannot afford to spare much

time

for going to the shops to buy anything.

Therefore

, the online method of purchase is advantageous a great deal for those who have a scarcity of

time

.

However

, buying

things

online is not without flaws as

this

trend is in a way suppressing the growth of small industries and local retailers who are not connected with the online platforms that sell and deliver products to the customers' doorsteps. So,

such

businesses do not get the desired market to sell their products and in

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earn profit. Another problem

that is

created due to

this

is that at times goods delivered are not of great quality and services given afterwards are not that efficient too.

Therefore

, a lot of customers'

time

is wasted in the entire process of buying and returning the products bought when found to be of low quality. In conclusion, though purchasing

things

using digital platforms is convenient and

time

-saving, it causes shutting down of small businesses and

also

sometimes customers are delivered commodities of poor quality.