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

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Nowadays, all over the world, the topic of the development of shopping is omnipresent.
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some people think the advantages of large shopping
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exist, other people think there are disadvantages of closing small local
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. From my point of view, I think both perspectives are valid for the reasons discussed below. On the one hand, as far as travel to large shopping
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or malls is concerned,
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, to a large extent, especially in modern times, no matter where in the world you live
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when you do shopping in large
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, you can easily find whatever you want
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that a lot of
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are present, resulting in having the choice of products.
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, in malls, you could have many clothes
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, and you can easily swap between
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to find the better items.
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, and most importantly in recent years, you might win time on account of the
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that every shop is in the same area.
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, there are disadvantages of closing small local
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. First and foremost, by and large, you could contribute to small cities delocalization owing to the
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that you encouraging big companies, resulting in the closing of small
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in small areas.
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, at least to some degree, when you prefer big
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as small
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, you cannot support your neighbourhood and your local community.
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, the local butcher who sponsors your football team, cannot continue to support them
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that he cannot earn more money,
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the reasons that you didn’t continue buying in his shop. In conclusion,
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some people think the advantages of malls for shopping, others say there are disadvantages of closing the small local
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.
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, in my opinion, both perspectives have value for the above-mentioned reasons
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • retail outlets
  • consumer behavior
  • shop locally
  • convenience
  • variety
  • economic growth
  • job creation
  • community
  • personal touch
  • small businesses
  • local economy
  • big corporations
  • dependence
  • shopping habits
  • urbanization
  • globalization
  • competition
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