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

Online shopping has rapidly grown recently causing

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of some shops. So it is argued that eventually offline stores will be wiped out and people will buy all goods on the Internet. I definitely disagree with the previous statement and

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Firstly

, traditional shops have an essential benefit that a person can come and touch, smell,

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on a thing. It is easier to make a decision about a purchase if you see a product in real life because sometimes online ordering can be unpleasantly surprising. There is a risk that a good can have worse quality or slightly different size or colour than

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a picture on a website.

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, a human factor plays a significant role,

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, inappropriate delivery conditions could damage an order or a market employee can send something completely different.

Secondly

, online shopping might be inconvenient for elderly people as they are not active users of the Internet. They could face obstacles to

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used to new technologies and new features can confuse them as well. Most of the websites do not support customizing fonts,

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it is difficult for them to distinguish

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, a great majority of the older generation does not have computers, so online shopping is impossible for them. In conclusion, though the popularity of offline stores is in decline I am convinced they still will save their proportion in trading. There are a lot of individuals who find them much more convenient and their voices should not be ignored.