Shopping Malls will drive the small traders away from the market palce ?
By akumei1269
@akumei1269 (1749)
India
February 25, 2007 1:43am CST
I live in a city of hardly 1.2 mllion population . Until six years back we did ot know of shopping malls or super market . And withing the last 5/6 years ten shopping malls have come up some of them being national brand .
Fear is expressed that these will drive away the small conventional traders out of market place . But I don't think so . At least that is not likely to happen within short period . Because , so far I myself have visted malls only a couple of times . There are many negatives associated with these shopping malls .
What is your view and experience regarding these new culture of shopping malls ?
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@fuzzEbluebathrobe (378)
• United States
25 Feb 07
This is a problem for us in the States too. A lot of towns are facing the fact that their quaint downtown areas are dying because the merchants and small stores we loved as children are long gone after malls became prevalent.
It sounds like you are just at the begining of this phase where you live. I try to shop at local merchants if they still are around but it gets harder everyday. I am not crazy about the malls either and do very little shopping there . I stick to catalogs and shopping on the Web mostly.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
25 Feb 07
shopping malls are full of merchants who rent space. many are small time. even if they do drive away the small guy, as walmart has been known to do, there is still a safe haven for mom & pop. that's the internet. you can be in business for under a thousand dollars selling a nitch product. nitch products aren't sold at strip malls, walmarts and their ilk.
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@OmegaThorax (3)
• United States
25 Feb 07
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