In recent years, many local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centres or malls to do their shopping.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Shopping malls have replaced local businesses in many parts of the world. Most people find it more convenient to but everything they need at one place. As a result, small shops no longer make enough money so they end up closing. I find this extremely negative for a number of reasons.
The first reason is that small shops are owned by locals who worked hard to build their businesses. So they are usually more inclined to keep higher standards of customer service so as not to lose their loyal customers. While malls usually have chain shops which are more oriented towards marketing and not towards the actual benefits or needs of the community. For instance, a local supermarket normally contains produce from local farms so it affects the economy of the town itself. In contrast, a hyper marker in a shopping center sells produce from farms that are not necessarily local or even national. Thus small businesses affect not only the lives of their owners and workers, but also the economical streams in the town.
Another reason is that domestics businesses, especially those which have been owned by successive generations, become a part of the town's culture and heritage. For example, every town has its own authentic restaurants and cafes which serve their unique food and drinks. Tourists are more attracted to eat at said places as opposed to dining at the food court of the shopping center. Furthermore, clothing shops at small towns usually employ young designers who start their careers domestically. The closing of these clothing shops makes it extremely challenging for the majority of those designers who might struggle to get a job in large apparel companies which open at shopping malls.
In conclusion, shopping centers have taken the place of domestic shops in many towns. Unfortunately, such development has some drawbacks which affect the economy, job market and livelihood of local residents.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 609, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...not necessarily local or even national. Thus small businesses affect not only the li...
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Line 5, column 133, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'towns'' or 'town's'?
Suggestion: towns'; town's
...ssive generations, become a part of the towns culture and heritage. For example, ever...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, so, then, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1611.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09810126582 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62912603679 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582278481013 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.4618487813 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7647058824 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5882352941 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.05882352941 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251827399485 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855938308176 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538991543706 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157414703729 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134667541337 0.056905535591 24% => 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: 11.9 13.0946893788 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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