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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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of the local market.Which have there on pros and cons on the business so
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, closing of local shops damaging the small investor and the workers
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how is connected with that business mostly small shops run by local people who don
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t have enough capital to start their business on a large scale. As we know the local market or shops give chance to the local worker to earn money in home area
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s help the community as well to buy their small things near to home by saving waste
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plus transportation cost and parking fee which they have to pay if they go to the big Malls.
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by the shuttering down to local shops unemployment in the local area will
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Which may enforce the jobless persons to do something wrong or illegal activities. On the other side of the picture, turning shopping trend to the huge Malls or shopping centre is because people don
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nowadays to go buy
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thing from
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the building of a large Malls is like a source of outing for customers too with their children and friends. As from my experience where
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to get some small stuff
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but when we
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we have to move forward to the big shopping Mall on a distance from my house
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for that
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have to drive a car but
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will get all my things over the floor.

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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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