• In many countries small shops and town centres are going out of business, because people tend to drive to the large out-of-town stores. This results in an increase in car use, and it also means that people without cars have limited access to out-of-town stores. Do you think advantages of such development outweigh its disadvantages?

It is becoming increasingly normal and standard that

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of people in developed countries start buying goods in big

malls

located outside of towns and cities, and

this

only suits the car owners. While

this

approach is convenient and can save time for those who can afford a car, it does the opposite for poorer social classes. In my opinion,

this

is a negative tendency that more creates severe problems than provides solutions. Before big

malls

became a thing and cars stopped being a luxury, in a typical middle-size city it could take the whole day to buy goods for the week, because shops were so dispersed across the cities. It is a very natural development that businesses started buying vacant pieces of land to build

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big

stores

that would have everything available. Today,

malls

are making the walking distances significantly shorter,

thus

saving a lot of time. In a single

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an average person with a car can now reach a lot more shops than before,

also

making the market

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overall.

However

,

malls

not only bring

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benefits. Nowadays the traffic jams and very polluted air, especially around big

stores

, are a commonality. Not only

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buyers need to drive there, but

also

a lot of workers,

such

as cashiers, which cannot often afford cars and

therefore

have to use slow and unreliable public transport. Some

stores

stay in the city

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, but to stay afloat as businesses, they have to raise prices, making it even more difficult for non-car owners. In conclusion, on one hand, the out-of-town

stores

and

malls

are a time saver and overall

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useful invention.

On the other hand

, they only make life easier for people who are well-off, but more difficult for poorer classes

instead

. I believe that governments should work on making life comfortable for those in need and introduce regulations that would help to find

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compromise.