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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Some
people
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believe that online shopping will replace actual
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and
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will lead to them closing in the end.
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effect of online shopping which was always debatable
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has now become more controversial. It can be strongly agreed upon that
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matter has some convincing arguments, despite the contention about it.
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, online shopping makes it easy and very convenient for the user to check what they need to buy
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a click of their mouse and from their house or in some cases from their workplace. There is no denying that
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method provides the individual smooth access to many different
shops
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at one time, rather than walking and checking each and every store personally. Online shopping
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has a huge advantage when compared to traditional
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that we can do shopping internationally.
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unique experience of checking out clothes, jewellery or even house furniture can be checked at the website of these international brands.
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with an actual store,
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have the privilege to check stuff
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and try
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on themselves.
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shopping online,
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issue of having the right fit for clothes or shoes is hard, since many times it is not the right fit for us.
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the customer has to go through the trouble of resending the things they purchased and have to wait days or sometimes weeks to get back the item.
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is not a major problem when doing online shopping, because with time
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tend to know their size when they order their stuff.
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form of
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is that
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sometimes the product that
people
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order online may be delivered as factory damaged or not as brand new. Again in
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situation
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customers have no choice but to send it back to receive a replacement.
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I agree that with time and technology, traditional
shops
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will be closing down and
people
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would prefer shopping online as opposed to actual stores.
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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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