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

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These days, many people
tent
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tend
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to
shopping
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shop
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from
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in
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enormous shopping
malls
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or mega
malls
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. It is
advantage
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progress
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. Because they could be buying everything which
need
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without
go
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out
from
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to
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the shopping mall. But it has some disadvantages for local
stores
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. The main reason, for shopping
from
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in
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mega
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mega-malls
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malls
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is
the
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that
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people could be buying everything that they need in them.
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, there are many varieties of clothes and equipment, so the adults could save their money and
time
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.
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, in my city, there are some shopping
centers
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and one of them is near
of
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apply
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my home. It has many
stores
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for buying and food curt for drinking and eating. When I wanted to go
parties
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to parties
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or other ceremonies, I can
to
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apply
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buy everything which I need
such
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as clothes, shoes, scarves, or other stuff.
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, there is a big
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supermarket
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super market
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supermarket
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under it, So I can buy
daily
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from it.
at
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many times, I could
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be competitive
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competitive
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in it and I do not waste my
time
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.
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, many ordinary sellers who
has
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have
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a store
near
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nearby
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by
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these places could not
competitive
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compete
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with mega
malls
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,
then
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, after a while, their business was broken.
In around
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our shopping mall, many
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supermarkets
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super markets
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supermarkets
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and some
stores
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for
this
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result were broken.
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, the sellers do their best but in my
town
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,town
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the number of unemployment is increasing.
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, some people say that
,
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shopping
malls
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and mega
malls
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are the best places for shopping or
spend
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spending
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time
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with friends, but we should support our local
stores
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,
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because they need their job for
living
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a living
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. In conclusion, we should be buying from local's
shop
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shops
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because they need their job and do not
abilities
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able
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to
competitive
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compete
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with enormous
malls
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. Sometimes, when we do not
more
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have more
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time
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for shopping
clothes
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for clothes
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or other stuff, is better
go
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to go
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shopping
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to shopping
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centers
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centres
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and completive many stuff by
color
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colour
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and cost and
then
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by them.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • community character
  • specialized products
  • homogenized
  • local economy
  • circulating
  • variety
  • convenient
  • social hubs
  • infrastructure
  • traffic congestion
  • pollution
  • energy consumption
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