Will the growth of online shopping one day lead to all shops in towns and cities closing? Some people believe that a current trend of more and more retail purchases through the internet will ultimately result in shutting down of all physical stores. I strongly disagree with this opinion, I think online shopping will improve our shopping experiences at physical stops. Firstly, people usually tend to see and touch the real goods before paying for them. Most of the time we can only imagine what a real product will be like by watching pictures and videos online. If we really want to buy an unfamiliar product, we are likely to see the product first to verify our expectation. That can definitely save our time on returning unsuitable purchases due to false expectations. Secondly, physical stores are convenient and gradually more competitive on price. A common and frustrative case for physical markets is that after people see the real goods and decide to buy, they go checking other available prices online right immediately via their mobile phone, and place an order online if the price is lower there. However, people will pay a higher price to get those goods at physical stores sometimes because they don’t want to wait one or two more days to get the goods delivered, they want to get the goods at once. In addition, some physical shops provide price deduction if customers show them the lower price online nowadays. Furthermore, it sounds easier to find a salesperson to bargain when people do shopping at physical markets rather than on shopping websites. In conclusion, the growing trend of online purchasing seems not to threaten or reduce the demand of physical stores for these reasons that people usually prefer to see real goods before making an order and feel more convenient and more probably to get a better price at physical markets. In order words, the growth of online shopping will not lead to physical shops closing but encourage the physical ones to enhance their competitiveness in the future.