Which is better: Online Shopping or Physical Shopping?
Shopping has changed through the years, until online shopping emerged during the pandemic, allowing you to buy things that you wanted in many ways. Online businesses and e-commerce platforms have been known during and after the lockdown. Both have their own pros and cons in many factors that could affect your shopping decision.

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Physical Shopping vs. Online Shopping
Inconvenient vs. Convenient
Going to a physical store would be more hassle for lazy people who didn’t want to walk and go outside or didn’t have time to buy physically. Online shopping would be more convenient; you just have to process it through your gadgets without going outside.
Instant vs. Delivery Days
Once you buy in physical stores, you will instantly get what you bought. It will already be in your hands. Unlike online, once you’ve checked out, you have to wait for the item(s) to be delivered to your home. It might take 1–7 days or more, depending on how far you are from the store’s location.
Quality vs. Quality
Buying physically could help you analyze the quality of the product that you’re really looking for. Also, you would see if there’s any damage to the product that you’ve bought so that you could return it or report it to the store. Rather than ordering online, once you order, you won’t know if the product's quality is really good once you get it, and it will take days for it to be refunded or returned.
Operating Hours vs. 24/7
Physical stores have their own schedule for their operating hours, so people have to buy only at their scheduled times. Shopping online can be done anytime; whenever you have free time, you could just process your orders.
Payment Methods
Some stores only offer cash payments, which limits customers payment methods. If you’ll be paying through cards or any other means, you have to ask first if they accept those payment methods. Payment online gives you a wide variety of choices on what way you want to pay for your order, which is less hassle, so you’ll just receive the item once it is delivered.
Choosing Time
Choosing products in physical stores is somehow tiring with the wide variety of choices you can’t look at everything, though there will be someone assisting you. In e-commerce platforms, you can just search specifically you wanted and you can take your time in choosing items. You could go back in ordering if you got tired choosing.
People have their own choices on how they want their shopping experience to be. Some preferred to go to the physical stores to enjoy and do other things. And some wanted to do it online so that there wouldn’t be any difficulties, and they just had to wait for it to be delivered. Both ways are good, and it depends on the consumer how they see it.
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