Liezl Laurel
Online Shopping
In a cold foggy day, you drive to the malland can’t find parking. Thirty minutes later, you finally get inside to look at some clothes. But, there is nothing in this store you find cool. So you move on and see something you like, but it is display only. Everything else you find is either sold out or damaged. Fast forward several hours, you finally find some things you want and are now waiting in line to pay for your items. As you leave you breathe a sign of relief that the ordeal is finally over and things couldn’t get worse, but a bird defecated on your car and there is traffic going home.
This scenario is frustrating and it has happened to a lot of people, and is why I’m all for online stores. When you shop online you avoid all the crowds and annoyances of shopping at a mall.
Shopping online is ideal for people who don’t have the time to go out. You can search and buy merchandise in minutes thus, freeing yourself to go and worry about other things. While shopping online, you don’t have to pay for transportation or gas. You literally just sit down in front of a computer and surf away.
Online shopping is ideal to do around the holidays, because stores are crowed and busy, where as, if you do everything online you can get all your shopping done in 10 minutes. All you have to do is sit around and wait for your packages to arrive.
Basically, online shopping has quirks most people find desirable. No lines, no crowds, and it’s fast and easy to do.
Shopping,Shopping
Kevin M. Aquende
Online shopping has been one of the most popular modes of consumption today, but buying items at the corner store will never go out of style.
Internet stores do have an advantage in terms of variety, while brick and mortar stores have more to offer to the customer. Tangible shops give the customer the opportunity to have a personal consultation with a sales representative before buying anything.
Physically going to a store also gives the consumer a chance to mingle with employees or business owners who may know more about the product. A trip to a privately owned record store is a good example of a shop that online stores cannot replicate. A chat with a business owner who is well versed in his own trade is a simple pleasure that a bidding site does not offer.
Security is another attribute that online stores are lacking. The internet is a very unsafe place to carelessly flaunt your credit card number; the last four digits of your Social Security number and your home address even though most sites require you to provide them nonetheless. Meanwhile shopping in a regular store allows for a more private transaction.
Another critique of purchasing online is the waiting period that buyers have to endure. All guarantees that your package is going to arrive safely are solely the responsibility of the seller. You have no control over the parcel that you bought with your own money unlike buying from a corner store, where all you have to do is mosey on back to your house with your stuff in hand.
Buying online gives a consumer a wide variety of items that no one store can compete with, but brick and mortar stores allow a more human approach to an already artificial matter.