In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centres or malls to do that shopping.Is this a positive or negative development ?
Shopping has always been an integral part of our daily lives. Earlier, there were shops specialized in selling a specific type of product. For example, book stores sold only books or related supplies, grocery shops stocked different grocery items and apparel outlets dealt with clothes. Nowadays, this trend has been replaced by shopping malls which most people advocate. In this essay, I would put forward my opinion that small local shops are better than large shopping centers and so it is a negative development.
To begin with, small shops provide definitive goods that a customer requires. Thereby, a lot of confusion is avoided when one knows what he/she wants as they visit the shop. The material they keep ranges from the lowest to the highest, giving the person a scope to choose things according to the budget. The fruits and vegetables such shopkeepers sell are always fresh and grown using natural processes. One can even find traditional products made by native people. For example, special snacks or sweets that are used by people during ceratin festivities like naru (a sweet made mostly out of desiccated coconut) during pujas. But the advent of large shopping malls has attracted people due to its glitz and glamour. As a result, these shops are being closed, and people are losing their jobs. The rate of unemployment is increasing, and it leads to a rise in petty crimes like theft and blackmail.
As the small shops are being closed, the malls have a monopoly in the market. This results in an increase in the price of different commodities. The huge space and decorations used in the shops and the centralized air conditioning are appealing to the buyers. But one tends to forget that these factors are included in the amount that they pay, leading to the excessive cost. There is no option of bargaining in the shopping malls, and so even if he/she feels the price is unnecessarily high, the person is forced to buy it. Sometimes, the goods that one buys, especially food items and makeup, are stale. In order to sell them, these marketing chains offer huge discounts. Furthermore, most of the shopping malls tend to promote international brands and do not showcase the national heritage of the country. This preference towards global brands demotivates the local artisans, and in the process, many important crafts are lost.
Nonetheless, shopping malls provide a one-stop solution to all our marketing woes and save time. It also provides security through guards and CCTVs, and parking space. Unfortunately, just to avail of these few facilities, serious concerns like unemployment, extravagant prices, loss of ethnic identity, and use of expired goods are rising.
Thus, in conclusion, I would like to say that although shopping malls present a modern and developed aspect of our society, a huge amount of risks are also involved with it which we have to handle before letting it sink into our way of life.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, nonetheless, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 10.4138276553 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 24.0651302605 162% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => 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: 2447.0 1615.20841683 151% => OK
No of words: 490.0 315.596192385 155% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99387755102 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60715463874 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 176.041082164 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575510204082 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 756.0 506.74238477 149% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 0.809619238477 988% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 16.0721442886 168% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9808078471 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6296296296 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1481481481 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88888888889 7.06120827912 55% => 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 : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.342311559547 0.244688304435 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0870011489961 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0869996040009 0.0667982634062 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17763151489 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0869153656416 0.056905535591 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.0946893788 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 78.4519038076 158% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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