Shopping Online

Advantages

You can shop anytime during the day or night, it never closes (24 hr service). People who have physical disabilities can be restricted from leaving the house without a carer and so shoppping online and this allows them to do their weekly shopping without any difficulties. There are also some bonuses to shopping online with certain shops such as Tesco and other large shopping chains that send you discount vouchers for shopping with them. Shopping online usually involves having the shopping delivered to your house which is also very helpful and saves you carrying all the shopping to your car and having to unload it all etc.

Disadvantages

Shopping Online does not have a restriction for people who are able to go out and do the weekly shop normally and so this is taken advantage of by people who are just being lazy and this can cause a delay in the delivery times for people who actually cannot physically do the weekly shop.

 There is usually a shipping cost when having the items delivered to your house. Depending on the company you bought off, the charge could be a fixed rate or varies depending on the amount being delivered. Importing goods such as games from another country is popular, especially when the goods are not available in your own country at the time. Buying from overseas can be fairly expensive.

When companies send out orders it is unlikely but possible that they could send out the wrong packages to people causing a lack of trust with both the company that messed up and online shopping in general. Also, because some shopping businesses have their own clothes sizes, you cannot try on the clothes you have bought online until they arrive at your house. When this happens it is common practise that you will have to pay for the package to be returned.

Threats

The website you are buying off might not be the actual company that you think it is and they are actually trying to access your bank details using the payment scheme.
Because you do not see the actual product in your hands when shopping online, you may not recieve the quality that you were promised or even a fake brandwhen you researched the item making it a waste of money.