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.
You should write at least 250 words.
The 21st century is truly identified as the century of Information Technology and the Internet. With internet becoming available to an increasingly larger group of people, the customer base for online shopping has increased and online shopping has became accessible to larger number of people. Many giants like the flipkart, amazon, Alibaba, Airbnb have emerged into the market of online shopping and the disadvantages associated with online shopping have shrunk.
There are only a few reasons for customers to reluctantly stick to traditional shopping practices. One is a lack of trust. The constant fear of being betrayed by the seller selling them a fake product. Other one is to be not able to feel and check the product before purchase. And similarly some other finite disadvantages. The lead time of the purchase is still an issue.
With the advancements in technologies, tech giants have worked hard to constantly address those disadvantages and reach out to more and more customers. The lack of trust and the fear of being betrayed by the seller by selling a fake product are being addressed by issuing certificates, introducing premium services and also providing reviews and ratings to the sellers. The policies of No Question Returns in addition to online reviews and size measurements through image processing and computer vision technologies have addressed the issues pertaining to mismatches in size and uncertainty associated with the incapability of feeling the product before the purchase to some extent.
In addition to the elimination of these disadvantages, online shopping offers a range of advantages that outweigh the disadvantages. Online shopping of air-tickets and groceries has eliminated the trouble of standing in long queues. From the comfort of the couch and with the touch of his fingerprints a person can plan his next flight and order groceries. He now has the capability to compare and choose from a range of products. He no longer has the compulsion to buy products from the nearest shop and the choose from options available in the shop provided by the shopkeeper. He can now get the reviews of other purchasers of the same product than the biased profit-minded views and explanation of the shopkeeper or sales-person. The most valuable thing in this fast-moving world that internet-based shopping saves is the time. Now you no longer have to travel to the shop/ticket counter and stand in the almost static queue for a task as small as buying a sachet of shampoo or a ticket to Texas. You can also now check the availability of tickets, the trends in prices of tickets, compare with the prices on other days and intuitively choose your desired seat in the aircraft without bothering to bombard a person with questions. This improved customer experience has surely outweighed the disadvantages of online shopping.
So, I totally agree with the proposition and can not find a reason to switch to the internet-based shopping harnessing the power bestowed by the technology.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 249, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'become'.
Suggestion: become
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Line 13, column 506, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... buy products from the nearest shop and the choose from options available in the shop prov...
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Line 13, column 580, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...in the shop provided by the shopkeeper. He can now get the reviews of other purcha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, similarly, so, still, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 10.4138276553 230% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 41.998997996 190% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2540.0 1615.20841683 157% => OK
No of words: 489.0 315.596192385 155% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19427402863 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01349765415 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 176.041082164 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498977505112 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 788.4 506.74238477 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.1773695035 49.4020404114 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.434782609 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2608695652 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.86956521739 7.06120827912 26% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17958704973 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0480807058197 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0421321622366 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0833049902838 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0494493173318 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 78.4519038076 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.