Opinion - Large shopping malls are replacing small shops

9. Large shopping malls are replacing small shops. What is your opinion about this? Discuss with appropriate examples.

Shopping is an activity of everybody’s daily life. Be it groceries, clothings, or home products everyone of us visits shops. With the changing lifestyles , many  people prefer shopping in large malls than in small shops.

There are numerous advantages of large shopping malls. Firstly ,there are numerous shops and brands present under one roof. Hence, people can buy what ever they like at one stop. This is very convenient for those who are working as it saves a lot of their time. Secondly, there are built in parking spaces and thus people need not park their vehicles at a distance and walk to these shops.

Nevertheless, there are disadvantages of these malls too. Many people are tempted to buy things that are not required and hence increase their monthly expenditure. There are many fast food centres which lure children into eating unhealthy food. On holidays and weekends a lot of people visit malls due to which parking spaces are full. This results in parking of vehicles on roads or in front of other shops and houses resulting in traffic and disturbance to shop keepers as well as nearby residents. Local shopkeepers who earrn their daily bread and butter face a hard time as only a few customers buy products from their shops. This affects the local economy.

To conclude, there are benefits of having large shopping malls, but they do not outweigh the disadvantages and therefore I believe that large shopping malls should not replace small shops.