In the traditional shopping, one has to leave home, either walk or take a ride to a particular location in order to buy what one wants. There are many ways of traditional shopping such like shopping at shopping center, outlet village, markets or department stores. However, online shopping has been developing at a fast rate through recent years and more and more people are moving towards this mode of shopping. The online shopping is typically done at home or office that you could convenient use a computer to search online.
2. My Traditional and online shopping experience
2.1 Online Shopping Experience
Online shopping offers me a greater selection at my fingertips with no waiting in lines, saving time and energy. Whenever I want to shop online, I just need my laptop, a cup of coffee, and I can shop at my own comfort and convenience at home on my comfortable bed.
I usually shop in G-market as they offer a huge range or products from lifestyle to fashion clothes to accessories, and even travelling packages. I personally like to buy clothes there due to the wide varieties with clothing design from different countries with different style. If I were to buy a formal and an informal shirt together through traditional shopping, I would probably need to shop at 2 different outlets to get the shirts. However if I were to shop online, I could get the 2 shirts at one go with a just few clicks.
When I shop online, it will just take me about a minute to log on to the Internet, and another minute or two to access the website of the store I want to shop. As for the time to select the items I want to buy, that would depend. I could spent about 30 minutes to an hour to choose slowly, as since I usually does my online shopping at home, at time I would just pause to get a cup of drink, go to the toilet, or chitchat with my family awhile and ask them for some opinion, and so all these would take up a little time. After deciding and
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