# Task2 | Advantage and Disadvantage | Online shopping --- ###### tags: `Task2` `Advantage&Disadvantage` Date: 2022/5/9 Time: 40 min Words: 289 words ## Question > Write about the following topic. 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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. ## Answer Nowadays, it is said that purchasing items online is getting more and more popular, thanks to the improvement of distribution and the Internet technology. In general, it is true that online shopping has merits and demerits. In my view, its advantages totally surpass the disadvantages, because people can purchase items more easily and effectively. First of all, online shopping is more advantageous than the real one in the aspect of time and convenience. When shoppers are finding something in offline shops, they generally follow four steps to do this. These include going out, choosing shops, selecting items on foot inside of the shop, purchasing and carrying them home. We can easily get tired through these steps. However, if we use online stores, the only thing that we have to do is just browsing through the internet shop pages, selecting items and just waiting until it is delivered. It is definitely easy and there is no physical tiredness. Although there are some occurrences where items are delivered in a wrong place, in most of cases, people can return or reimburse the product by asking the online store. At the same time, it is very convenient for us to find items through online shopping. As a result of the innovation of IT, online store recommends us what we should buy. We can easily find items which we certainly want by this recommendation. For example, when I tried to buy a pencil at Amazon, one of the biggest online stores in the world, it recommended me a pencil sharpener. If I had been shopping in a real store, I would not have purchased this item. To conclude, purchasing on the Internet has more advantages than disadvantages. This is because it is physically convenient (or This is because of its convenience), and also, we can find items easily and effectively.