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 a negative development?

Recently, customers buy from malls and deserted small shops, which led to their closure.

This

trend is a negative development because it ruins the

economy

on more than one

level

.

Firstly

, the trend is hurting the

economy

on the individuals'

level

. Namely, when small shops lose their clients they bankrupt. small shop owners are individuals who support their

families

;

hence

, small

families

lose their source of income.

For example

, in Egypt, a small grocery store is usually owned by one or two persons, and they hire some extra staff to work in the shop along with their own children too. One grocery store can be the only source of income for multiple

families

. Needless to say, large shopping centres are taking local shop owners out of business, and that has a fatal financial impact on a significant number of

families

. A

second

negative effect is that

this

trend negatively affects the

economy

on the

state

's

level

. The

state

gets less tax because there are fewer contributors to the market.

In addition

, the government faces an increasing number of unemployment; which creates multiple challenges and limitations on the overall

state

's welfare. To illustrate, the government obliges to produce financial aid programmes to help the small private sector pushed out of the market while getting less financial resources

such

as taxes.

Therefore

, any national

economy

will suffer if the local small private sector demolishes. To conclude, buying from large shopping malls

instead

of small local shops is a negative development.

That is

because it has negative outcomes on the individual's

level

by increasing unemployment and on the

state

's

level

by crushing the national

economy

.