Shopping Online

1. Vocabulary

• make up/ cosmetics 化妆品
• commodity 日用商品
• home appliance 家用电器
• cashier counter 收银台
• stand in a long queue

1. Advantages of off line shopping

• choose products in real
• assuring the quality
• relax yourself since you can get away from your environment. and I usually go to the mall with my best friends so it is a good way to enhance friendship
• you can try on the clothes to see if it fits you well.

1. Disadvantages of off line shopping

• the mall is a little crowded and you need to stand in a long queue at the cashier counter

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• you need to set aside much time to go to the mall since it is a little far from your house. You may need a long commuter time to get to the mall
• goods in the mall is limited and you may wandering the whole day ending up with empty hands

1. advantages of online shopping

• convenient. since you just need to slip your finger on the smartphone screen to choose the suitable goods and pay for it. the vendor would deliver the goods to you for free. It rescue you from the long line at the mall
• provide you with more choices. Since the vendors could come across the country. You can shop around and choose the cheapest one.
• transparent. Though you couldn't see the real products but the vendors are required to disclose the information of the products on the pages. what is more, you can see the feedback from other customers who already bought it. If there is no negative comments on it, then you can have a try on it.
• the platform management. Tmall usually would rate the vendors according to the feedback of clients and I only buy things from 5 vendors with 5 stars.
• refund. If you find the goods not meet with your demand, you can refund it and get your money back. In Tmall, if you submit the refund application, the system would promptly ask you if you need the delivery service. If yes, they would ask the couriers to fetch your goods and send it back to the vendors. And you can get your money back. Even though you are not certain about the product quality online, but as long as you have the option to refund, then you would like to try it.

2. Disadvantages of online shopping

• buy things that you don't need. Since you can see comments from other clients, and you may be inspired by their hyperbolic statements and buy something that you don't need. And lots clothes vendors often pose pictures of models in their clothes. and you may be attracted by the beautiful model and buy the clothes that don't fits you in fact.
• you may often buy dissatisfied goods and need to refund them. That is a waste of time. Because you need to wait to receive, try on and then refund.

雅思7分作文： shopping online
Today, shopping, a necessary daily activity, becomes growing epidemic by transforming itself from conventional manner in stores to online platforms. In my view, this shift in merchandise, though might have some negative influence, is still positive.
Compared to shopping in stores physically walking from one place to another, this change on consuming behaviour offers a great convenience to most people, especially young working adults by allowing them to take their time to select everything that they are interested in page by page and then to simply put goods into the shopping cart waiting for the payment. Apparently, it fits young people well in this frantic pace of living. Quite apart from this, the shift in business away from traditional model is resource conserving, since the demands for working staffs and salesmen have kept pace with the number of customers. Further, products, through internet, can reach more potential consumers as there is no geographical barriers, no longer restricted to a physical location.
However, it is not all rosy, with the opposition from those who argue that this change on consuming behaviour and operation of business may have a negative influence on current brick-and-mortar business model. Given that online shopping with lower cost permits comparatively cheaper selling prices, appealing to more consumers, it can raise a competition as well as an impact on tangible business. But I contend that in order to attract more potential consumers, both of them will optimize their resources and upgrade their service, from which consumers can get more benefits. And this competition will have a positive effect in long term on the whole business by providing selection for the most public.
In conclusion, though the change taking place right now has an adverse effect on actual business, it is still positive as the competition can promote economic efficiency and development.