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

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In the modern world numerous big shopping malls have taken
place
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of small local stores by the consumers.
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is definitely a positive development as from the customer point of view one can get all sorts of buying items at one
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along with the wide-varieties and from the employment perspective large number of jobs are available in the city. The huge shopping centres
consists
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consist
of various departments with all the categories of household things, groceries, clothing, pharmacy, etc.
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is beneficial for the common man to visit
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single
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and purchase all that he needs for his house and family
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of roaming to a number of different small shops in his locality.
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example my
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example, my
uncle and his family living in the small town finds it very convenient and time and energy saving to visit the great international shopping arcade opened in their area a few months ago. Here he fulfils all his domestic needs quickly and
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also has
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also have
an option of
broad range
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a broad range
of items in terms of brands
,
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,
colours, sizes, prices, etc.
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the opening of
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giant hypermarkets requires huge manpower for its profitable running.
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Therefore many
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Therefore, many
job positions gets available for the people.
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helps in reducing the unemployment rate of that city.
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instance in
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instance, in
a country like
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India, which
is highly populated and is
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in
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position in the world
for
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of
the population, shopping markets
needs
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need
great amount of staff members
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as managers, accountants, security guards, inventory controllers, customer service agents, cleaners, maintenance technicians, etc.
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causes the local people to join in and in-turn increases the economic rate of that city. To conclude,
lately many
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lately, many
people
are preferring
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prefer
to visit the supermarkets rather than their small local shops. It is a positive effect as it helps them to shop
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for
a single
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with a wide variety of options.
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Furthermore for
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Furthermore, for
them it opens huge amount of job vacancies which helps in decreasing the unemployment rate.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • community character
  • specialized products
  • homogenized
  • local economy
  • circulating
  • variety
  • convenient
  • social hubs
  • infrastructure
  • traffic congestion
  • pollution
  • energy consumption
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