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Noawdays online shopping becomes more popular than in-store shopping. Is it a positive or a negative development?

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it is common knowledge that online shopping is increasing, and it is more popular than in-store shopping. In
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 I will argue both opinions. on the one hand in our ,lives the most important thing is time, and online shopping is a magnificent opportunity to save time,
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moreover
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 it will able to purchase anything that we long to have. ,
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 we can buy items that we are unable to find in
stores
, and their price is lower. for ,Instance I do not remember exactly when
however
 I suppose 1 or 2 months ago I online did buy some books which were not available in my country,
also
 one of my closest friends 2 weeks ago did purchase
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perfume which in my country was so expensive and
it is clear that
 not all
people
 could let them
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buy it,
although
due to
 online ,shopping my friend bought it. on the other ,hand it has negative sides, for ,example many
people
 work in
stores
, and if the majority of
people
 or all
people
 make up their minds to stop buying in
stores
, and prefer to purchase online, I do believe that most of the
stores
 will be closed and that workers will suffer,
additionally
 buying something online is not safe, there are many cases where
people
 bought something on the internet and they got another thing that they ordered or even worse they did not get anything.
therefore
 you can not trust online shopping at all. in ,conclusion online shopping has its positive and negative developments,
however
 as far as I am able to judge we should keep a balance.
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