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 a negative development?
The behavior of shopping has changed when the economy grew. Some complains that it caused the closure of many small businesses because most people do their shopping in large shopping centers instead of buying at local stores in the neighborhood. However, I think this change is in fact making a better business environment.
First, the “invisible hand” closed these small shops, that is, the free market is the driving force in this change of economic model. Inefficient stores will fade out as their cost and expense are higher than those larger and more efficient department stores. Therefore, the price is generally cheaper in chain grocery stores, as the costs can be lowered by mass transportation and systematic storage of goods.
Also, travelling to large department stores to get all the things in one shot is convenient to shoppers. In the past, people had to travel to different places to purchase different ingredients. Nowadays, they can buy daily supplies, get meals, and order electronics, while their cars are changing engine oil in a single shopping complex. It saves a lot of time and effort of customers.
It is unfortunate that the diminishing of local shops may kill some unique and creative products. However, it is not true. They can cooperate with larger business to put their goods on one of the product shelf in a big store. The cost may be lower for them as department store provides more storage space and better promotion because more customers can see their product when browsing around. This centralizing business model helps all the parties in the market.
In conclusion, more large shopping centers and less local stores is a positive development in free market economy. Large and small businesses will be better off, and shoppers will have a easier and simpler shopping experience.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 17, column 186, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, i think, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7383267397 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => 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: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0180386374 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.8823529412 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6470588235 20.7667163134 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295032026698 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811702788646 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882806551884 0.0667982634062 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167337876158 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0975089153407 0.056905535591 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => 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: 12.29 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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