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?

It is a general belief that a lot of small local shops have

shutdown

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shut down

because customers prefer to shop from big shopping centres

such

as malls.

This

is a negative development.Analysing both the financial strain that these petty traders go through and the difficulties encountered by rural dwellers in purchasing their immediate needs will help to buttress my reasons.

Firstly

, there's going to be an increase rate of poverty in the society at large.

For instance

, the owners of small shops are more in number when compared

with

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the owners of big shops.

Thus

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customers shopping from big shops will lead to enriching only a small group of people while a good number of local traders that constitute the majority of the populace are impoverished.

Therefore

, it can be seen that shutting down of small shops is a negative development.

On the other hand

, rural dwellers who

purchase

most of their commodities from small shops face a lot of difficulties when they want to

purchase

their immediate needs especially at odd hours.

For instance

, I remember one fateful day we needed to

purchase

oral rehydration solution

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an oral rehydration solution

for my dad who was having watery

diarrhea

frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

diarrhoea

. We had to take a bike to the city which is about 1000km away from our home.

This

stress was all because many pharmacy shops close to our place of residence have

shutdown

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shut down

because only a few patronize them, and those that

purchase

from

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since

them

people in general

they

do so when they are in dire need of the commodity

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with the erroneous belief that owners of small shops have a lot of expired products in their

shops

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shop

. So it's obvious here that the closure of small shops due to more patronize for bigger shops

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does

more harm than good. In conclusion, it can be seen that the financial challenges and the difficulties encountered by those living in rural areas in purchasing their immediate needs are forms of negative development to our society.It is envisaged that if nothing is done about it

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this

will increase the rate of crime

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especially in rural areas since these owners of small shops might decide to resort to robbery as their means of livelihood.