The growth of online shopping will one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing. Do you agree or disagree?
The onslaught of online shopping portals has raised the likelihood of these overwhelming shops, and thus the latter might cease to exist. But will this really happen, or not has profoundly intrigued many.
The opinion of retail outlets shutting down their business in wake of fast becoming ubiquitous e-shopping is based on the assumption that as people are becoming more and more engaged in the professional and social pursuits, they are likely to have lesser and lesser time for an auxiliary activity like going for shopping. They may prefer saving the efforts, time and money invested in visiting shopping districts, or even nearby outlets and get the things delivered at their doorsteps.
However, many commentators consider this probability as a mere illusion. In their view retail stores can never shut their shops due to the trust they enjoy among billions of shoppers, who cannot imagine buying anything without physically inspecting the merchandise. Besides this, one can hardly discount the impatient shoppers who cannot wait to lay their hands on the goods as soon as they buy. For such people online buying shall always remain a distant dream, thereby letting the stores continue.
On top of that, the charm of visiting retail outlets will refuse to fade because of those innumerable buyers who perceive this activity as a leisure. Visiting shopping centres allows them a healthy distraction from the daily humdrum and break the mundane; and socialize with their nears and dears, and peers. For such people going shopping is a ritual which fetches immense pleasure and that is irreplaceable by online shopping.
Overall, I fail to concur with this statement that stores will be superseded by online shopping. Despite rapid spread of new ways of buying things the retail outlets will never cease to exist.
