Buying things on the Internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular. Do the advantages of shopping in this way outweigh the disadvantages?

Now with the development of science and technology online shopping is becoming more and more convenient, do you think online shopping is better or worse? In my
opinion
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I think online shopping is good. Why
I think
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do I think
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online shopping is good?
There’re
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several
reason
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I said that. The first one is online shipping is more convenient. Since most people are busy or lazy these days, they don’t want to spend
time
shopping, or sometimes they don’t have goods on site and go back, which is
waste
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of
time
. Second
is
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you can price compare because
in
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online you
want
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buy a thing and there have same stuff but different
price
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prices
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so you can save
your
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money. The third is
wide
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the wide
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range of
product
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products
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, sometimes when you go to
store
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a store
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shopping they only have the thing they incoming goods but online is different you can have more
choice
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. But some people will say
the
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online shopping will
have
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dangerous.
For
example
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you may buy
the
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fake things
in
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online but to shop online, you have to take certain risks and responsibilities. If you have the first
time
that
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you will be careful the next
time
so next
time
need to be more
caution
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. I think shopping online is very convenient and it can save us a lot of
time
. But there’s
certain
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amount of risk.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • convenience
  • time-saving
  • wide selection
  • competitive prices
  • discounts
  • accessibility
  • global marketplace
  • availability
  • fraud
  • scams
  • lack of
  • physical interaction
  • personal experience
  • impersonal
  • customer service
  • delays
  • delivery
  • return process
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