Many supermarkets are selling more and more products that are imported from other countries instead of selling food that is locally sourced.
What are the reasons for this?
Is this a positive or negative development?
An increasing number of shopping centres sell imported food products rather than local ones. The main cause of this trend is that in this way supermarkets receive more profit in comparison with sellers of locally produced food. From my point of view, it can be considered a negative development.
It is true that behind any market decision lies the desire to make a business profitable as much as possible. Thus, importing varies foreign foods by stores is aiming to attract more clients and satisfy even the most sophisticated customers’ tastes. It is obvious that modern society is highly oriented to imported goods on the whole and exotic food in particular. For instance, I am fond of trying out new tastes, textures and smells and the most convenient way to satisfy this need is to buy unusual food. Meanwhile, local food producers tend to use time-tested technologies and are not willing to launch new product lines. As a result, citizens prefer to purchase more foreign products.
Although supermalls are pursuing a noble goal such as clients’ satisfaction, I think the switch to ‘overseas’ food has more disadvantages than mentioned above advantages. Firstly, these kinds of policies are harmful to local producers and they are not able to compete with imported goods. Even though they concentrate on the quality of product, the price of their production will probably be higher than the external one and people will turn to cheaper and more exotic ones. Thus, they will gain less income and will not be able to open up-to-date technology lines. In addition, local farmers also are not able to face the competition of imported fruits and vegetables, which are coming out of season.
In conclusion, the main reasons for sails growth of imported foods are the market’s pursuit of for-profit and the desire to fulfil customers’ testes. Despite the fact that this trend has some advantages, in the long term it has a negative impact on local farmers and food producers and it is recommended to support the local food industry and help it to attract shoppers.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
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| 2022-02-14 | Mariamirabella | 78 | view |
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, so, thus, while, for instance, i think, in addition, in conclusion, in particular, such as, as a result, it is true, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1741.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04637681159 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77566464468 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56231884058 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8946818058 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.8125 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5625 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.4375 7.06120827912 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.310674324647 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913820526364 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0620222210375 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20143625698 0.151304729494 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0818622624863 0.056905535591 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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