In recent years, many small local shops have closed because customers travel to large shopping centers or malls to do their shopping.
Is this positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
The scene of shopping has been changing recently with the surge in many shopping malls opening in the cities. The direct implication of this scenario is the closing down of many local shops. The rise is being criticized because shutting down of local businesses; however, it is not as bad as it looks because going to shopping centre has more benefits for consumers and businessmen both.
Firstly, the malls give a hassle free buying experience, because every shop is under one roof. They also have designated parking area, restaurants, cinemas, entertainment section and other facilities like washrooms which are not easily available in local market. So basically, a mall caters every member of the family and due to these reasons customers have preferred to go to malls. For an instance, after working hard for a week, I visit the mall to purchase household items, groceries, clothes and once done, I eat at a restaurant of my choice and can directly go for a movie. Malls gives much more relaxing shopping experience than any other establishments.
Though, this has affected the local businesses around the globe, it is not a long term effect which will put many out of employment. A local shopkeeper can always acquire or rent a space in mall and start the business there. I had witnessed a local vegetable vendor’s business flourishing after she started a small cart of organic vegetables in a mall. The range of customers coming to mall liked the variety of products and they were willing to pay the amount which locals were not ready. Likewise, the mall culture can be completely utilized to by local shops if one knows to a few skills of business and marketing.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that opening of shopping malls and shopping centers does not have flagrant influence on local shops. Even though they are out of business for a while, right applications knowledge and help can make them a part of shopping mall and the local shops again start selling the products to their customers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 192, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s the closing down of many local shops. The rise is being criticized because shutti...
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Line 7, column 191, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'applications'' or 'application's'?
Suggestion: applications'; application's
... are out of business for a while, right applications knowledge and help can make them a part...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, likewise, look, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1678.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92082111437 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71093710801 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 176.041082164 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58357771261 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 506.74238477 104% => 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: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.9729250748 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.866666667 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7333333333 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294090545395 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103749125809 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470393997659 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188093547223 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396930194094 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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