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

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In recent years, the growth of large shopping
malls
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is uncontrollable. In Jakarta itself, there are approximately 150
plazas
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and even there are 10
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in only one district.
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a big number of large shopping
plazas
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. But why has department store development become uncontrollable? One of the reasons is the high demand for department stores itself. People come to
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for recreation, especially in Jakarta. Shopping
malls
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in Jakarta offer many things, for, example luxury boutiques, amusement stores, restaurants, parks, events, etc.
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phenomenon has caused many small local shops have closed.
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, there are some positive sides to the implication of
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phenomenon. It shows that consumers have higher purchasing power parity.
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, the shopping capacity of our community is increasing. It proved by people can buy the higher quality things that are followed by higher prices too and it can be found in large shopping centres.
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, mall developers get higher
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and
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governments will get more taxes. Shopping
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can
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open big job opportunities for the local community around them.
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, there are some negative sides that occur
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these events. Small shops, that are composed mainly of medium-low
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families, will get less
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than before. These families can become poor families and because of that, the government will get more burden to subsidize them. Poor communities can
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increase criminality in society, as they are hopeless to get a decent
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.
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discussion, the increase in consumer visits to large
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has its own positive and negative sides. One of the solutions to these problems is to give small shops a permit to open stalls in large
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, but they don't accept small stands. A win-win solution for increasing the earnings of small outlets and large shopping centres is to make a bazaar in the shopping centre area.
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