Criteria C- Online Shopping
Online Shopping can have many impacts on the society. It can have positive impacts as well as negative impacts.
A positive impact on online shopping is that it means less travel time and it can mean that it gives you lower costs; less spending. A positive impact would mean that people would use less paper while shopping online which would mean less trash and less pollution which is important to the environment (Williams, 2007).
A negative impact on online shopping would be the issue of credit card theft and identity theft. Credit card numbers and stolen and many victims suffer. However, giving your credit card details online is no different to handing your card to a shop assistant that you don't know or a waiter you have never met before (Bloch, 2007).
There are many problems with online shopping when it comes to purchasing the item. There are many issues such as high shipping prices, inventory problems, and prices." More than half of the respondents (51 percent) said they abandoned a shopping cart even though they had intended to buy products on the site". Some say " 54 percent of respondents prefer to shop in a physical store because they can understand a product better there, and 76 percent said they were more likely to buy products on a site that helps them do so by offering features such as product zoom, 360 degree product views, and online videos of products in context"(marketing VOX, 2007).
