Many supermarkets are selling more and more products that are imported from other countries instead of selling food that is locally sourced. What are the reasons for this? Is this a positive or negative development?

Nowadays everyone doing shopping has the chance to buy
products
coming from other countries in spite of purchasing
goods
that are locally sourced.
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essay will discuss the main reasons why supermarket entities choose to sell
products
imported more than local food and
then
describe two positive effects of
this
behavior
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. In my opinion, the foremost causes of
this
choice are
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cost
reduction and the increasing capacity
of
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capture
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new clients. Today, many factories around the world make primary commodities at a very low
cost
of production and a lot of supermarkets can buy these
goods
spending
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much less money than doing
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thing
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the local vendors. Supermarkets take
also
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advantage of selling
products
that have not been produced locally, in other
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they offer a much more variety of
goods
to consumers of different cultures. The possible effects of
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behavior
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are having, as a consumer, a richer and more balanced diet and, for sure, spending less money when I do shopping. First of all, every time I go to the supermarket I have the beautiful possibility to buy
products
both locally sourced and imported from other countries and decide, day by day, to balance the diet of my family.
Secondly
, I gladly figured out that, over the
last
years
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, plenty of
goods
have
been
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decreased their
cost
due to
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market competition.
To sum up
, I think
cost
reduction and the chance to capture new clients are the main reasons
to
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explain the choice of supermarkets to sell more imported
products
than local ones. That results in product price decrease
also
for consumers and
have
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the opportunity to enhance and balance our diet.
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