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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Shutting down of smaller local shops due to the large influx corporate real
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malls has negatively affected the commodities market in the consumer shopping vertical.
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essay will explore the negative elements of large shopping malls and the unfortunately diminishing footprint of small local retailers. We've had more than five decades of constant economic progression, while
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may have affected world peace and improved quality of human life, the gap between the rich and the poor has never been as wide as it is today. One of the main reasons for
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is the immense amount of wealth accumulated by large corporations that allows them to carpet bomb entire communities through so called commercial real
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development projects. These projects are aimed at unifying a number of local retailers spread out over multiple blocks into a densely packed, vertically built shopping
mall
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. These malls usually are owned by a single or a small conglomeration of corporate companies, which goad local shops into acquiring rented spaces in their malls by giving out incentives like power backup, security, and lower rents.
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, within the
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five years, it is a trend that the rental rates start to
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, often exceeding 20-25% the local average. Another negative aspect in which shopping malls take away the local experience is that within the same
mall
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, one can find multiple options of the same brand. While
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good for the customer, it pushes the local businesses to compete with each other with pencil thin margins, while the owners of the
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benefit from the ever increasing
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costs. By securing these retailers on a security bond agreement, the promoters of the
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mall ensure
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that the shops stay in a lock in period with constantly increasing rental and
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costs. In conclusion, it is rather obvious that shopping malls and similar commercial real
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ventures are a
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and
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plutocracy. These buildings aim to monopolize local commodity trade causing inflated prices to the customer while compromising with smaller margins to the seller. In my opinion,
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malls should be regulated by the government under a Build - Operate and Transfer model, where the real
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developer must hand over these commercial buildings to the tenants once they have recovered the building, operating costs and a profit.
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will prevent them from exploiting local businessmen perpetually, and it will
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probably, wash away one of the biggest negative aspects of shopping malls.

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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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