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?

It is now very common that we see the small local businesses are closing and they give way to chain stores and department stores where people mostly prefer to go shopping. There are large malls throughout the cities and even in the suburbs, and people commute to these places eagerly to purchase. Although such improvements has recently benefited people, I also see some limited downsides.

On the one hand, the new development has helped people in different ways. Firstly, large shopping centers make it easier for people to have everything in front of their eyes. Therefore, it is faster and time-consuming for a customer to find an item and it is simply possible to remember even the unnecessary items that someone might need. Secondly, there are a number of brands available which provide a variety of selection for buyers. Thirdly, because of the vast majority of shopping, there would be always some special offers that the customer could benefit from. Despite the facts mentioned above, it could have a merit from economic point of view. There would be an opportunity for employment as there is always a demand for new staff in these places.

On the other hand, like many other developments, this kind of evolution might also have negative aspects. Some products are heavily hyped in these large markets and it makes people to be tempted to buy the things that they do not really need. In other words, these places persuade people to be a real consumer which could have negative cultural and economic consequences in societies. The other thing is about the prices that are more negotiable and reasonable in local shops compared to malls and large shopping centers.

In conclusion, although the new development has been beneficial in many ways, I believe that there is the downside which is worth thinking of.

Votes
Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, in conclusion, kind of, in other words, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96405228758 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57645906491 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558823529412 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.8851613268 49.4020404114 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 101.266666667 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06120827912 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257676537917 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0718511488843 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0639851069499 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125277370193 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505482637111 0.056905535591 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => 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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