Many high street shops have gone out of business in recent years. Why do you think this has happened? Is it a positive or negative development?

The trading market has significantly changed in recent years and vanishing
high-street
shops
is one of its consequences. There are several reasons for
this
receding which I believe is a negative development. In my opinion,
this
issue has two main reasons.
Firstly
, shopping centres are becoming more and more widespread. Nowadays, many
people
are intending to go to shopping malls rather than
high-street
shops
, because they can easily meet all their needs in one place while taking less time.
For example
, if they want to buy a dress and technology gadgets, they can do it in a shopping centre now while having had to go to different places in the past.
Secondly
, the younger generation mostly prefers online shopping. They can surf the internet among many online
shops
and fulfil their needs while staying at home.
This
has become even more popular during the covid-19 pandemic when
people
have been forced to avoid the crowd. Personally, I see
this
as a negative development. Vanishing
high-street
shops
will result in more unemployment which is a burden to the government. These
people
, who are the owners, will need a new career to cover their living expenses and the government should make more job opportunities to compensate for
this
receding.
Moreover
, if there are no
high-street
shops
, there will be no opponent for shopping centres or online shopping to compete and
consequently
, they can raise the prices;
in addition
to more traffic congestion around malls.
Therefore
, if these
high-street
shops
had not gone out of business,
people
would have had the chance to fulfil their needs at competitive prices. In conclusion, it seems to me that the trend of vanishing these
shops
is a harmful development
although
there are two rational reasons behind it.
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