In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centers or malls to do their shopping. Is this a positive or negative development?

Nowadays, many small

shops

are no more in existence due to people's preference for large stores and malls. I believe

this

is a positive development because malls usually have varieties of

items

and

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only registered products. Purchasing of

items

at malls is easier as it reduces the stress of patronising many

shops

on different streets for varieties of

items

.

This

is because large

shops

are a

one-stop shop

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for

consumption

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the consumption

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of all

items

desired.

For instance

, more than 80% of small

shops

in my community were selling the same brand of baby diapers as their neighbours, which makes life

difficulty

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for

we

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nursing mothers' in that locality. But since Shoprite supermarket was opened very close to our locality 4years ago, many of them were closed down because they could not satisfy the needs of we consumers.

Furthermore

, aside the varieties of

items

possess by large stores, all goods sold there are registered by appropriate government agencies.

This

major reason gives consumers the confidence of being able to trace the source of

such

product

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a product

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if there is any challenge. A good example was

a local rice

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local rice

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made by Festus Group of Company, that was discovered to have been expired. The company was traced through the label on the pack, it was sanctioned and the circulation of the rice was stopped. In conclusion,

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in the closure of small

shops

is a very welcome development as their services are not satisfying and safe.