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I support this plan. I want a large shopping center near my house. In our neighborhood we have many small shops, but we don't have a large shopping center such as a department store. So it must be convenient for us if a large shpping center is built in our area. But some residences in our area may be oppose this plan. Because if such a large center has built, people don't have to go to small shops, so owners of small shops must close their shops. I think it is an important thing we must consider. To solve this problem, I can suggest two ideas. One idea is let the small shops included in the large shopping center. And the other idea is to restrict the time the shopping center opens, as usually suggested by many people.

To let the small shops in the large center, we must consider many things. For example, the small shops must have some qualities. Usually, in my country, small shops in a town are not famous shops, that is, they don't sell popular goods. A small shops usually don't have popular goods that people want to buy. On top of that, their prices are higher than a large shopping center. In a large shopping center, many shops sell good commodities at low prices. Because such a shopping center is usually owned by a large company. The company invests the shopping mall a large amount of money, so it can have many famous shops and sell hit commodities in low prices. So if small shops that have no good commodities, they must close their shop and be employed as a one of the staffs in the center. It will be patient for them because they have been an owner of a shop until that time. But I think the owner of the large shopping center might want to employ such people. Because such people have well-known customers in the area. So if these people work for the large center, it is clear that incomes incerase.

But if the owner of the shopping mall has his own project and he doesn't want to employ the owner of a small shop, then what can we do? One suggestion is that, as commonly said, the law in the area restricts the time the shopping mall opens. By doing so, if people want to buy things on their way home at an late hour, they will go to the small shops. So people may buy things both at the large shopping mall and at the small shops.