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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number of local

stores

closing due to the fact that shoppers are choosing to buy in bigger places, even though they need to travel a larger distance for that.

However

, for the closing

stores

that is

a drawback, from the customer point of view

this

is unavoidable. With a growing community,

it

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also

comes different shopping options, which in long term is more beneficial. Buying from small local

stores

is becoming less common,

however

, there is still the need to go to local

stores

, to buy immediate essentials, a medicine that

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is unpredictable to be needed or a food missed from a recipe that will be made before the

next

big shopping. There is

also

a concern that

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with those

closures

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the economy will

also

be affected

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lower business numbers and decimated

money

rotation.

Nevertheless

, the small buys made

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local shops are not enough to sustain them there. People are inclined to go shopping once a month and buy their needs in a mall

instead

of going to the

neighborhood

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shop more often

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and spend

money

and time there. Despite the considerably less

money

spent whilst shopping in one store at a big centre, the temptation to spend

money

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, non-essential items, are more likely to happen.

For instance

, going to a supermarket inside a mall

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gives you plenty of visual incentives to

browse

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for clothes, house items and other appliances that

was

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not on the original shopping list. Researches

has

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shown that the replacement in kitchen appliances has increased 20% in houses where people choose to buy in shopping centres. In conclusion, the fact that

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people are opting to go shop in large centres has more advantages than trying to maintain small

stores

functioning. The alternative for

those small business

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to survive from closing is

migrate

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to

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of providing services,

such

as, online business or selling their items to those large companies.