Criteria A porftfolio 2---Online shopping and small business failure

Criteria A: Presentation of the issue
Online shopping has become extremely demanding an as it increases dramatically it has positive and negative issues. This IT problem involves society because due to the increase of online shopping it has affected small business because some people prefer to use online shopping. Online shopping has some advantages for example lower prices and bargains and also companies as for example Amazon (Eric Benderoff, Chicago tribune) is gaining loads of money and growing each day. The negative side of this situation is that small companies are being affected because no people are buying in their shops and causes failures and unemployment; and also credit card thefts, and data information being taken by hackers.

Ethical issues are people and machines and globalization. When people go to shops, they interact with salesmen and when they use online websites and buy articles, people will start to interact with machines and that will cause unemployment because small business won’t have any incomes causing the closing of more shops. Also globalization, a phenomenon that is affecting the humankind because technology is being spread in all the world and therefore people are getting to used online shopping.

Stock Number 4

Nike
Symbol: (NYSE)
Price: 60.70

Stock Number 3

Sony
Symbol: (NYSE)
Price: 55.30

Stock Number 2

HSBC FIN CORP
Symbol: NYSE:HTB
Price: 24.56

Stock Choice

Boeing
Symbol: (BA)
Price: 82.87
Why I chose it?:
The price is going up, because more people are travelling and therefore airlines are buying new planes.