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

During the

last

few years, the number of small merchants'

shops

is plumbed due to the decrease in the affluence of customers, that prefer going shopping in

huge

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shopping centre and do the grocery shopping in large

supermakets

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supermarkets

,

instead

of purchase from local farmers.

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opinion

this

is definitely not a positive trend, because penalise small business that

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vital for the economic well-being of a small town or a city.

First

of all, the increase of big shopping centre, and the subsequent closure of local

shops

, affects the economic well-being of an incredible number of families that survive exclusively thanks to the earnings derived from the income of their activity.

For example

,

in particular

in tourism cities, there a lot of people that run

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own shop of souvenir, handmade clothes and jewels or typical food.

Furthermore

, the increase in the number of purchase from mall, encourage,

for example

, the consumption of fast fashion clothes and shoes and discourage a

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sustainable

shopping. Indeed,

shopping

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the shopping

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centre is full of

shops

belonging to big retailers and commercial brands.

As a result

, folks avoid

to purchase

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purchasing

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items made by hand and in small quantities,

prefering

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preferring

to buy clothes

af

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as

well known

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brands. In conclusion, I strongly believe

that is

extremely important to preserve local

shops

in order to safeguard the well-being of their owners and to

substain

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sustain

the

econimic

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economics

of small towns. At

last

but not least, it is necessary to reverse

this

trend to encourage a more

sustainble

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sustainable

way of doing shopping and to increase

sells

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sales

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of handmade items and local products.