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

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Nowadays, huge shopping complexes are constructed to decrease increasingly the numbers of local shops. I strongly believe that
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it has a disastrous effect on society. In
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development on society will be evaluated. On one hand, constructing large shopping malls makes
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comfortable to do shopping in one place at the least time.
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means it will not be a time-consuming option.
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have some negative effects that
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positive point. The
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positive influence is making an overcrowded area.
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strictly face a lot of problems for doing their daily routines.
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, local shops sell their products
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a lower price,
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, sellers in large shopping
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sell the same products at least two times more expensive.
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is due to they must pay more tax and rent. The
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because they will not be able to
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centre for shopping. In conclusion, in
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evaluated.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • local shops
  • shopping malls
  • small businesses
  • community identity
  • economic impact
  • convenience
  • variety
  • shift towards
  • sustainable business models
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