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?

Nowadays, some little local stores have closed due to customers are doing their shopping in distant larger stores. Whereas large shopping centres can offer a broad range of products, in my opinion,

this

is a negative development, since local shops can better serve the closer communities with fresh

food

. On one hand, usually bigger shopping centres are part of an international entity which is present in several countries abroad.

Thus

,

this

kind of shops can offer to its clients a wide range of different brands and products.

For instance

, not only some special coffee brands, but

also

international seasoning can only be found in big shopping malls.

Consequently

, large shopping centres are preferred for many people when they want to buy some specific product.

On the other hand

, small local markets do not need to have a huge

food

warehouse, since the quantity is supposed to answer a local community demand only.

Hence

, these shops tend to have more fresh

food

than bigger ones.

For example

, there is no need for stocking high quantity of either fruits or meats, because the same people visit the shop for buying them.

Therefore

, products are only on the shelves for a few days until they are purchased by someone. In conclusion, the large shopping centres can offer all kinds of products from different parts of the world;

however

, the local markets are better in offering fresh

food

for their customers.

Then

, in my opinion, having few local markets is a negative development.