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In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping center or mall to do their shopping. Is this a positive or a negative development?

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At present time, most people are willing to go to big places to buy items
instead
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 of going to small shops and
Hence
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, many locations for the local markets have closed. I will discuss negative and positive points and that will decide if it is a positive or negative development.
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 of all, there are many sellers who invest in small businesses and keep hope to get profit from their work. Because of opening showrooms and large shopping companies, they get less profit.
As a result
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, it prevents them to go
further
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 in their work.
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, due to fewer sales, small shoppers
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 think that they cannot compete with their competitors and they decide to close their businesses.
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 of all, small shopping centres give products at fewer
prices
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 and large places have high
prices
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 of that, so it
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 affects customers' financial condition.
Moreover
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, it
also
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 increases competition between manufacturers.
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, if big stores have higher
prices
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 their products, people prefer to buy them due to the high quality and brand name.
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, large shopping malls have a variety of items which small dealers do not have usually.
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, large shopping centres attract to consumers by sale on products which is a very good point.
At
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 the end,
this
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 is not a positive development because small suppliers have to suffer a lot due to competition, differences in
prices
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 , and variety.
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