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 negative development?

There has been a series of termination of business of small local stores

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increasing in number in recent years. The consumer's now prefer large malls wherein there is

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an assortment

the assortment

and accessibility of products.

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is a negative development as it has resulted in unemployment and loss of tourism. One serious problem that can arise from the

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of the small shops is that the competition between the small shops and the large shopping

centers

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

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will disappear.

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the large malls will stop providing discounts on the goods as they do not face competition;

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, they will not reduce the prices.

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, malls offer discounts throughout the year to keep their customers away from the small shops.

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, the

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of small shops will affect the customers. Another issue is that many people will lose their jobs and become unemployed.

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, when the small shops close, people employed by them will lose their source of income, and that will put them in a difficult situation.

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, many families run small shops to earn their living. When they go out of business, their families will struggle to survive.

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, the

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of small shops in some places will affect the tourism industry. Many tourists prefer the small shops in the streets

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of the big malls, and the reason behind

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is that walking in an old beautiful street watching people doing performances and other people shopping is more joyous than being inside a large building of concrete. In conclusion,

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it has become easier for people to do shopping in one large

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, the

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of small malls has brought too many problems for

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to be considered a positive development.