There is a huge shift in the customers behaviours with regard to purchasing from local shops or markets to supermarkets or malls.This is a positive development mainly because of the convinient or comfort that these large shopping centers offer to the customers.
As the malls are located at the heart of the city and sell wide variety of products with lot of options, customer now a days loves shopping at malls rather than at retail shops. Since customer dont have to travel different locations in search of multiple products he saves lot of his time and energy. Additionally, these centres also have other facilities such as clean toilets,parking areas,food courts, playing area to the kids which addresses almost all basic requirements of the customers to spend time without a worry. Also malls are designed in a such a way that one’s whole family’s essentials are met at a time, being it might be requiremnts of fashion acceesaries,stationeries,groceries,toys,medicines and even entertainment facilities.
Furthermore, these shoping centres do provide huge discounts and offers to the customer as part of their promotion which will also help the customer in relation to his finance. For example, offers during ramadan or christmas occasions helps the customer to satisfy all his festival essentilas with little money.
In conlusion,people prioritising shoping centres over local markets is positive development due its ease of accessabilty rather than negative development.