Question: An increasing number of people are buying what they need online. What are the advantages and disadvantages for both individuals and companies to shopping online?

With an increase in technological advances, and awareness regarding the internet among the people, electronic shopping has become famous from last few decades. The consumers and the big firms both are affected by this trend. This essay will discuss pros and cons at both the level.

This change in the tendency of people is beneficial not for them only, but also for corporations. For customers, they got a convenient way of shopping which can be done anytime, from anywhere owing to the availability of the internet and the electronic devices. For instance, when they order a product from the website, it would be delivered right in front of their door. Not only this, if the product is not as expected or damaged, pick from the home facility is also available. This ensures not only the quality but also the satisfaction. For a company, they could sell their products direct to the customers without any intermediary like wholesalers or promoters, which could decrease the maximum retail price and as a result increases the sales. As an outstanding instance, some big brands of the smart phones have realized the profit associated with it. They have gained at the extent that they have completely moved to online sale. Thus, online shopping has been proved to be the boon for both the sellers or manufacturers and purchasers.

However, some curses are also attached to this blessing. For individuals, they could be a victim of the social fishing while shopping online. Their important data like credit card number, personal identification number, username and password could be used for forging. For instance, once a newspaper published one incidence where one person used the cyber café computer for shopping a gift for her girlfriend and his online banking account was hacked. The hacker used this information to withdraw all the money in his account. On the other hand for a company, it could be costly if the price of the shipment is considered. Also, some risks regarding damage are associated with the transportation. For example, if someone purchases a product electronically, the seller has to ship it safely to him otherwise, the replacement would be required which causes further expense on the shipment. Thus, it is quite possible that this boon can be converted into the curse if care is not taken.

To conclude, online trade has made the shopping convenient for the customer by bringing the supermarkets on their fingers and increase in sale to the entrepreneur, although there are some threats to the security of the information and commodity in transit.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'for instance', 'as a result', 'on the other hand']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.242616033755 0.247107183377 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.149789029536 0.155533422707 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0527426160338 0.0946595960268 56% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0527426160338 0.0501214627716 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.042194092827 0.0437548338989 96% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122362869198 0.122226691241 100% => OK
Participles: 0.0632911392405 0.0403226058552 157% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81203119677 2.80594681477 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0232067510549 0.0326793684256 71% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.14135021097 0.0861772015684 164% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0210970464135 0.021408717616 99% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0105485232068 0.011925033212 88% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2584.0 1933.35771543 134% => OK
No of words: 426.0 316.048096192 135% => OK
Chars per words: 6.06572769953 6.12580529183 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.20517956788 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352112676056 0.374742101984 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.276995305164 0.28420135186 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.225352112676 0.203846283523 111% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.12441314554 0.137316102897 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81203119677 2.80594681477 100% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 176.037074148 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535211267606 0.56093040696 95% => OK
Word variations: 61.6188379099 60.7387585426 101% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0891783567 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.3636363636 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5661327567 49.517814964 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.454545455 127.492653851 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3636363636 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.590909090909 0.814263465372 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 47.0631668801 49.1944974215 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.75 1.69124875643 103% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329248964544 0.332605444948 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.092118725949 0.102741220458 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0675729334498 0.0668466124924 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.501018351359 0.534860350844 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.160249240279 0.148594505496 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128522572223 0.134430193775 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666969737143 0.0742795772207 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.482785014593 0.324371583561 149% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0850310952474 0.0638462369009 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252852937006 0.228012699653 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134773695002 0.058150111329 23% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.41683366733 146% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 5.90881763527 186% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 1.9629258517 204% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 10.4468937876 172% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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