in recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centers or malls to do their shipping. Is this a positive or a negative development?

The debate around whether the phenomenon of closing local

shops

thanks to the changing of individuals' purchasing habits is beneficial or detrimental has raged on recently. I, for one, approve of the idea that it would be disastrous.

This

essay delves into the issue and provides logical reasons before drawing a conclusion. On the one hand, ceasing the operation of local

shops

would have negative implications

first

and foremost is changing the

culture

. In terms of

culture

,

this

means that local

shops

are part of the local communities which are the most important aspects of

people

's tradition and

culture

, so closing the

shops

eventually makes a distance between them.

Secondly

, not only does it cause damaging effects on the

culture

, but it would

also

have bad impacts on the middle-class

people

's financial status.

In other words

, many

shops

will be closed, so many family breadwinners will be unemployed or even broke and

then

could not meet their family's needs.

On the other hand

, due to the globalization fact, closing local

shops

and changing buyers' behaviour definitely is inevitable, for two reasons they could be even advantageous.

Firstly

, purchasing from big shopping centres and malls enables users to have more choices, and as these

shops

offer competitive prices and bargains, purchasing would be more affordable for the mass of

people

.

In addition

people

especially the young, would be exposed to countless job opportunities,

such

as a store manager, accountant, truck driver, and seller. According to statistics which have been published by the New York Times magazine, countries that feature hypermarkets and malls have had at least 60 per cent financial growth. Having taken all into consideration, as far as I am concerned, the demerits of closing local

shops

outweigh the merits, and it is better to keep them because they are part of our

culture

.