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?
To cater the “one-stop” needs of customers, more modern shopping complexes have been established recently; however, as a consequence local boutique stores have vanished gradually. In my opinion, this is a trend that is devastating to the society. This essay will elaborate more on the reasons behind.
The community will lose color because of the closure of these shops. In other words, it would cause damage to local culture and diversity. Restaurants and shops in shopping malls are often owned by large corporate groups whose products or services are usually monotonous like factory production, while local businesses usually offer more creative and authentic products. In Hong Kong, there have been consistent complaints on the lack of support on these distinctive outlets and the government has developed numerous policies to support them. The development of these stores is generally crucial for the daily lives of the local residents.
The issue also affects the tourism and hence the economy of the country. Visitors will lose interests due to the diminishing of shops with unique products and characters. According to a recent survey on travelers, local handcrafts are the top 5 spots that the they would like to explore in the journey. They may travel to an area less due to the loss of uniqueness of the city. For example, if the place is full of chain stores and luxury brands like KFC and Gucci, the tourists will definitely find no reason to travel as these restaurants and merchandizes can also be found elsewhere. The thriving of local businesses will certainly promote the local economy.
To recapitulate, current expansion of department stores is damaging to the society. The government should investigate more on the issue and try to alleviate the problem by subsidies and corporation with the global institutions and local stores.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 257, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'they'?
Suggestion: the; they
...cal handcrafts are the top 5 spots that the they would like to explore in the journey. T...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, so, then, while, for example, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1580.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28428093645 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92166455244 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578595317726 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 501.3 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1736982493 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.75 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6875 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.625 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191540039147 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0518210497188 0.084324248473 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0375897755407 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102740356956 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537256797101 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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