IELTS writing practice-Online Shopping

Shopping online, hasseemly become a growing trend globally in the era of digitalization, making itpossible to buy things at every moment and anywhere. Despite of the fact thatit may be the main culprits in several ways, I believe that its strengths aremuch more significant than its drawbacks, as a great boon to households in allcorners of the world.

Basically, it is to beblamed for its two shortcomings to purchase products on the internet. Afundamental problem with it is that it has exacerbated the existing environmentalpollution world-wide. Due to the delivery of items bought via the internet, enormousplastics bags are used, far more than ever before when people were wide-eyed bythe buzzword “e-commerce” several decades ago, creating far-reaching disastrousimpacts on environment. A less obvious disadvantage lies in the deceptiveadvertising. To make their products more visually tantalizing, online vendorstend to beautify them by photo editing, which thus may impress consumers withfalse images and thus induce them to buy the merchandize. 

Nonetheless, buyingmerchandise online has several points in its favor. One substantial benefit isits easier, faster and more convenient access than its brick-and-mortarcounterparts. As the slogan of Matalan, a British fashion and homewareretailer, goes, “click and collect”, buyers’ items are a sheer “mouse click”away. With a wide spectrum of products at their fingertips, consumers areempowered to choose in both domestic and international markets. This is inparticular revolutionarily transforming people’s lifestyle in rural areas,where people previously constrained by distance and transportation had totravel to faraway towns or cities to buy necessities. The other undeniablebenefit of buying things through the internet is that it provides consumers aplatform for comparing the similar products before making an order. It is theinternet that enables shopping around much more efficent and decision-making moresensible.

Though the potentialdangers it may have, online shopping has been a growing share of purchases.Enabled by information technology, particularly the proliferation ofsmartphones, e-business has been an unprecedented business model. Simultaneously,the watchdog of each government is playing its own due responsibilities tosafeguard the interest of stakeholders involved in online shopping.

JUN REN