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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and bigger structures emerge. One of them
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is
shopping
centers
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
centres
centre
which attract more and more shoppers which in turn leads to lots of convenience stores running out of
bussiness
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
business
.
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processes has
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case has introduced more advantages for shoppers from
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the convenience
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perspectives rather than disadvantages.
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, with big malls and shopping centres gaining more popularity consumers have become able to shop for numerous types of things
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in
one location. Being able to acquire all the required items from a single point saves a lot of travel time and energy.
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, several years ago when I moved into a new apartment, I needed to purchase several pieces of furniture along with some electrical equipment for kitchen
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as microwave and blender. I went to a mall with
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a wide variety
of shops and
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choices, both
for furniture and gadgets,
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I was able to buy everything I needed and left satisfied with my purchases as I had a chance to visit numerous shops before buying something.
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, if the shopping centre was not there I would have to stop by multiple places located significantly apart from each other.
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, because different brands/
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companies providing
the same type of services are all situated in close proximity to each other, a
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price
something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
prize
competition takes place pushing the monetary values of products down. Reduction of costs positively affects the financial situation of the customers.
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, two fast food restaurants that are located
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to each other on the same floor of the mall will have to compete for customers
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plummeting the food prices.
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the result of cheaper product transportation costs as there are a lot of shops, restaurants and alike getting their goods delivered to the same location
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mall,
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reducing the transfer value and final
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of the merchandise. In summary, consumers give
privilage
a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
privileges
privilege
to big shopping centres over
the small
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smaller
convinience
the state of being suitable or opportune
convenience
conveniences
shops when going for shopping which results in termination of the business activities for small stores.
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can be interpreted as an adverse progress by some,
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development actually brings lots of benefits for
customers including
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customers, including
but not limited to all-in-one location for shopping and lower
price
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tags.
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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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