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

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There were times, when people use to wander around the streets, hopping from
one
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shop to another to meet their daily requirements, but with the growing technology and infrastructure, all the requirements
are consolidated
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consolidate
under
one
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roof. There have been debates, that due to the making of
malls
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the malls
there has been a drastic
affect
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
effect
on the local stores, as people prefer shopping centres over local
gorcerie
a marketplace where groceries are sold
grocery
stores. For
me its
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me, it's
me it's
an impactful
development
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and not at all a negative
one
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. To embark on, individuals have to face a lot of problems when it comes to shopping from
mini
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Mini
local stores.
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, they don't get all the household stuff from
one
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shop, for which they have to keep looking for products from
one
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store to another which is
time
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taking and frustrating.
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hand there
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hand, there
are parking issues, as the streets are narrow and crowded.
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, talking about the positive aspects, the only
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which I have personally experienced is, in urgency, when you need daily household things
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as
salt to
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salt, to
cook food or biscuits to serve the guests, the local stores come handy as you cannot rush to a mall because it is not located
next
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door, but
this
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doesn't provide enough evidence for negative
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.
On the contrary
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, Shopping centres and Malls provide everything under
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roof, from shopping to other activities
such
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as gaming zones for kids and multiplex to spend quality
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with family members.
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for
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For
example, in todays busy and compact
schedules it
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schedules, it
schedule it
schedule schedule it
gets difficult to spend
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with the family members. To compensate parents along with
thier
of them or themselves
their
kids head to malls on weekends to get full, out of their weekends.
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, Malls
also
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provide locals with
variety
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a variety
of brands from around the world to stay ahead in fashion, along with the same they
also
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have great discounts to attract the audience which the local shops fail to deliver.
On the other hand
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, customers don't have to deal with the hustle-bustle of traffic. Ample parking space is provided. In the end the questions
arises
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arise
, is
this
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a negative
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?
which
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Which
in my
view points
a mental position from which things are viewed
viewpoints
, is not. So to conclude, from the above
discussion it
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discussion, it
seems the positive side of the
development
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outweighs the negative side, as it saves you
time
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, money and a much needed family
time
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.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • retail outlets
  • consumer behavior
  • shop locally
  • convenience
  • variety
  • economic growth
  • job creation
  • community
  • personal touch
  • small businesses
  • local economy
  • big corporations
  • dependence
  • shopping habits
  • urbanization
  • globalization
  • competition
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