Many small, local shops are closing as they are unable to compete with large supermarkets in the area. How does this affect local communities? How could this situation be improved?

It is often said that big supermarkets are the cause why local small stores are diminishing. This essay will vividly enlist a few effects of this trend to local communities, following some solution to improve this condition.

More people will tend to patronize supermarkets for its low prizes. Large stores have direct contact with the product supplier which gives them the luxury to lower the prices of all their goods. For example, baby diapers which are widely used by newborn babies up-to toddlers are $1 cheaper than local shops. Moreover, big stores offer perks like occasional sales, sudden item price drop and shopping cards. Lastly, large stores offer shoppers almost all they would need, unlike small shops. For instance, cooking "Kare Kare" requires a lot of ingredients such as peanut butter, kare powder, fresh meat and green leafy vegetables which local stores obviously don't have.

Although the aforementioned facts single-handedly elevates large supermarkets interest, there are certain methods to mitigate this. First perhaps the most effective way is adaptation. Local stores must offer competitive prices against their competitors, innovate and counter supermarkets perks like offering Cash on delivery or even go worldwide by offering online shopping. Another significant method is to sell unique items. Supermarkets offer almost all the customer needs, but that advantage also accompanied by demerits. Large stores are tightly coupled to the product and rules of the company, thus local stores can use this loophole to market bazaar items like chicha super worm, local pure honey and lambanog taken fresh from the coconut tree.

To conclude, while large supermarkets tend to benefit the local community, it is also clear that it crushes local shops down to bankruptcy. In my opinion, small shops must adapt to this current market status and formulate a strategic plan to improve their business and make it on par with large supermarkets.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, such as, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1667.0 1207.87684729 138% => OK
No of words: 308.0 242.827586207 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41233766234 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 3.92707691288 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63225601249 2.71678728327 97% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 139.433497537 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.646103896104 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 379.143842365 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 12.6551724138 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2703003847 50.4703680194 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.1875 104.977214359 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.9669160288 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 7.25397266985 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 6.9802955665 172% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258359581139 0.242375264174 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809081034775 0.0925447433944 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654873255689 0.071462118173 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187172475765 0.151781067708 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695036393401 0.0609392437508 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 12.6369458128 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 11.5310837438 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.32886699507 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 55.0591133005 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.5123152709 133% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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