In the recent years , many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping malls or centres to do their shopping. is this a positive or negative development?

These days people prefer to do shopping in large shopping malls or centres. Because of

this

, local shops are pushed to the extent of closing their

business

. Over time

this

growing trend among people will damage the society.

Firstly

, these shopping centres incorporate all provisions under a single roof.

This

approach leaves little or no light to shine for indigenous businesses. The investments made to run their

business

by these local shop owners do not give them the expected profit. They are left with no other choice but to merge their

business

with these so-called shopping malls. Like

for example

, products of local small scale

business

owners who sell arts and crafts are bought for a petty price and

then

branded and sold under the names of these large shopping malls. Another thing to mention is that the advertisements and sales made by the large shopping malls for their

business

propaganda easily reach the public. They

also

construct these shopping centres at convenient locations in the city where public transport is better. Because the government takes zero efforts to promote the local businesses they lose their market to shopping centres.

For example

, owing to financial constraints a local group of handloom weavers called Co-

optex

the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light

optics

were not able to promote or advertise their products. Due to

this

, they were not able to successfully reach the people and eventually had to close their handloom shop. To conclude, because of failure to recognise the talent and skills of local

business

and promote them, tendency to shop at large malls is increasing.

This

will eventually lead to the closure of these businesses and a fall in the commercial growth of the economy.