Many small, local shops are closing as they are unable to compete with large supermarkets in the area. How does this effect local communities? How could this situation be improved?
Due to globalization, large supermarkets has increased in recent years and this is causing a problem for local businesses. I think there are a number of ways that local governments can aim to deal with this problem.
One of the side effects of globalization is its impact on local communities. For example, large supermarkets have sprung throughout cities. It has everything to offer including, a variety of items, comfort and competitive pricing and this has influenced people to avoid local shops. The items are imported from different countries in huge quantities and thus the pricing is very low when compared to local shops. They also offer air-conditioning, seating areas for the comfort of shoppers which cannot be found in local shops. As a result, local businesses are not able to compete and sustain themselves and are forced to close their business and people are facing tough times.
One of the best approaches governments can take is to limit the licensing of large supermarkets in residential areas. This means that a detailed study should be done before granting licenses. Local shops usually thrive in residential areas. New licenses to open supermarkets should be given only for commercial areas. Another approach is to tax large supermarkets and subsidize tax for local businesses. Local shops usually are run by local people and they do thus to sustain their families. The main aim of large corporations is to generate profit.
Another out-of-box approach is to put a condition on supermarkets to purchase at least 40% of their fresh food merchandise from local businesses. This policy will help local shops to flourish. If consumers still prefer large supermarkets, local shops would be doing good business as suppliers.
Clearly, local shops cannot compete with large supermarkets. This will lead to unemployment and anger among local communities. Governments can do a lot to support small, local shops by taking measures like limiting the licensing of large supermarkets, taxation and forcing them to buy merchandise from local shops.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, still, thus, as for, at least, for example, i think, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1739.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2696969697 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99031340972 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524242424242 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 533.7 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4787619376 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.8095238095 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7142857143 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 7.06120827912 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374066362014 0.244688304435 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122631588192 0.084324248473 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547079926913 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232043867951 0.151304729494 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0191816602219 0.056905535591 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.0946893788 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 50.2224549098 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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