In recent years,many smallocal shoops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centres or. -malls to do their shopping. Is this. a. positive or a negative development?

Over the

last

few years, the local

people

went to buy their needs from

malls

and large markets and did not go to the local ones. Which led to their

closure

. I believe that

this

phenomenon has various drawbacks. The prevalence of huge

malls

and the

closure

of

the

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local

stores

have several disastrous outcomes. The

stores

opening in the

malls

are multinational brands which do not match the local habitats' needs, while the local shops do.

Moreover

, these multinational brands are far more expensive than the domestic ones, which results in making

people

buy fewer items at higher prices, and not satisfying all their needs.

For instance

, in Egypt, many

stores

closed because of the high number of

malls

opened there, yet many

people

now do not find products matching their needs while it is not affordable for many others, due to the termination of the domestic ones. I believe that the

closure

of domestic

stores

has many negative outcomes on society and the

country

.

Firstly

, it increases the unemployment and poverty rates.

Secondly

, it may lead to the bankruptcy of the local business owners and send them to jail eventually.

Finally

, it damages the

country

's

economy

, because when

people

can not compete with multinational brands, the majority of the traders will leave the market, and

thus

economy

will be affected.

For example

, in Iraq when the

malls

spread in the

country

there, the local

people

were unemployed,

in addition

to the

country

's

economy

was damaged. In conclusion, I hold the notion that the

closure

of the national

stores

due to the spreading of

malls

has various disastrous results on both citizens and society. Like more expensive goods for the folks, bankruptcy of business owners, higher unemployment rates, and affecting the

country

's

economy

badly.