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?

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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?

Thanks to the Internet boom and the development of technologies, online shopping for such things like books, air tickets and groceries has been very popular these days. While few masses opine that the traditional shopping is more practical and more effective, I am still of the opinion that e-commerce does bring much more benefits rather than problems to consumers.

One of the huge advantages that online shopping offers is first and foremost convenience. Consumers can shop from the comforts of their own houses, their workplaces or virtually anywhere at their own schedule. This absolutely suits with the modern and fast-paced life today in which people do not often have enough time for in-store shopping. Secondly, goods from online retailers are usually cheaper than physical stores as online businesses have no need for payment of such things like the rent for business premises, tax, etc. On the plus side, buyers are also easier to access to price comparison from different suppliers and to seek for reviews over products that they are interested in. Lastly, there is a maximum of amount of choices for buyers to pick up a product via the Internet either from internal markets or from international suppliers.

As regards downsides from shopping online, consumers have no chances to physically check the products before the purchase. This can result in wrong or damaged products for a reason that online traders are in complete control over informations and images of the products. Besides, buying things through the Internet usually comes up with late delivery or even no delivery at all.

To conclude, apart from some unexpected problems that are possibly solved with a better management, the advantages coming from shopping online are much greater than the disadvantages.

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Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, while, apart from, as regards

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1507.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25087108014 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65918724713 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613240418118 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.5307546792 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.583333333 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201418483587 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688744771463 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0673923131338 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12801202577 0.151304729494 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102932173262 0.056905535591 181% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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