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?

These days, many persons tend to do their shopping in the market

instead

of small local shops ;

as a

result

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many of them have closed .

Although

I think that

this

tendency has some obvious advantages , I strongly believe that the disadvantages of

this

trend can outweigh its advantages. On the one hand , there are some reasons that are why the majority of customers prefer to shop from the market and large

centres

.

Firstly

, those types of stores ensure a variety of choices to costumers ,

then

the probability to find the adequate articles for them is higher than small stores .

Secondly

, customers benefit from a large choice of facilities in malls and

then

they can do more activities than shopping .

For example

, some families prefer to shop from large

centres

in order to paste an enjoyable time with their loved ones

such

as taking lunch or coffee in restaurants at

centres

.

On the other hand

, there are several obvious negative consequences of

this

tendency that cannot be ignored .

First

of all ,

this

development will increase the level of unemployment in society because those sellers who work in small local stores will become unemployed if their shops have been closed .

In addition

,

this

trend will discourage local manufacturing and favour the import of international brands ,

as a result

, the local economy will be affected negatively and will show a decline in terms of production .

Finally

,

this

tendency encourages people to spend more of their money on articles do not need and

then

waste their money which should be invested in meaningful things . In conclusion , despite the big market and large

centres

can provide diverse benefits to customers, I believe that it is not a positive development and the drawbacks that bring exceed their benefits .