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

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In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centers or malls to do their shopping.

Is this a positive or negative development?

Growth of shopping plazas and malls have totally transformed retail industry. Now more and more people are purchasing from them instead of neighborhood stores. This essay will discuss both aspects of argument and argue why this is positive trend for society.

Firstly, big shopping places offer variety of products and competitive prices to their customers. They have large assortment with proper planograms, it helps shopper to easily compare product with its competitor and get good deal for him. Instead of running pillar to post, all needs can be fulfilled under one roof. As these stores buy in bulk quantity and they pass on discount to end consumer in form of promotions and bundle offers. It helps to customers to get quality products at competitive rates. For example, we use to purchase grocery from international chain store, Carrefour. Even buying recipe, we have five to eight different companies’ product available which helps us to get more value for money.

On flip side, growth of these outlets has led negative effects on economy as well, many people associated with small retail stores are out of business now and income inequality is also increasing.

To conclude, we can say that this has benefited shoppers however led to closure of many small-scale outlets. But overall with its contribution towards customer welfare, it is surely a positive change.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 522, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...s at competitive rates. For example, we use to purchase grocery from international ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, so, well, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1173.0 1615.20841683 73% => OK
No of words: 223.0 315.596192385 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2600896861 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.20363070211 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7026485818 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.681614349776 0.561755894193 121% => OK
syllable_count: 362.7 506.74238477 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.6409865541 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.2307692308 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1538461538 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.69230769231 7.06120827912 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162690179547 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0528085641516 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477022847447 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0976290978958 0.151304729494 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0308135856559 0.056905535591 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.0946893788 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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