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 true that, shopping trends have changed a lot during recent times. Nowadays people prefer giant shopping squares over small shops. This, in fact, is a development in the positive direction as people donot feel shopping as cumbersome task anymore.
Firstly, this change has made it easy for the people to buy different products. Now they can get a variety of things at one place, rather than roaming around at various places. So, this has also decreased the frustation levels among the buyers. For instance, a survey conducted by Vmart revealed that customers were more satisfied when they bought products from a supermarket as compared to the local stores. About 80% of the buyers also rated their experience as happy on a feedback form. Thus, people find large shopping centers more helpful.
Furthermore, closure of local shops have increased the availability of space. Due to which, the crowding in the local areas have declined and there is less hustle bustle there. Such a change has enabled the folks to shop peacefully. Along with it, they donot have to wait in queues to buy the item as self-service is available in the big malls. Therefore, this approach saves their time and they can spend that extra time doing some other productive work.
To conclude, supermarkets have changed the lifestyle of people. They have contributed significantly to increase the comfort of the folks and now people feel shopping as their leisure time.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, therefore, thus, for instance, in fact, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1208.0 1615.20841683 75% => OK
No of words: 241.0 315.596192385 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01244813278 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56610741877 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.643153526971 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 368.1 506.74238477 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.790664177 49.4020404114 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.5 106.682146367 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.0625 20.7667163134 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06120827912 87% => 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 : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.278060623952 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861726076712 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569947394161 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166235010937 0.151304729494 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0517619937389 0.056905535591 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 9.78957915832 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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