Everyone wants convenience for themselves, whether it’s about travelling or shopping. They wants to go to a single place and buy whatever they want and supermarkets and malls are the best option.

 Nowadays whether it’s a big city or small plenty of malls are there to fulfill the needs and demands. All of us has adapted the mall culture and has molded the interest towards malls and supermarkets and is diminishing the existence of small shops and retail markets. 

In the last thirty years large supermarkets have changed the retail business landscape around the world. Larger store formats, more shelf space and variety of goods and services, longer shopping hours and extensive marketing strategies have changed traditional retailing. This trend has increased the competitive pressure on small stores that used to have “monopolistic” characteristics within their neighborhoods. Even though supermarkets are relatively novel in developing countries,  as a result, small retailers and producers, have increased the political pressure in order to mitigate the effects of large supermarkets upon them.

Coming across the interest and opinions of some people, saloni jha said that yes, small shops are in threat but we can’t deny the development. Malls and supermarkets are easy and convenient method of shopping and you don’t have to roam shop to shop to buy different things, you just have to go to a single place and do the shopping.

Soumya Jha added that, yes I agree that in small shops we do the bargaining but in malls and supermarkets shopping is easy there’s fixed price for every products.

With almost 40 million people in India depending on the traditional retail sector, the trade unions and traders fear these people’s employment will suffer if retail giants are permitted to enter India’s retail market. Malls, supermarkets and big traders and giving threat and tough times to the retailer and wholesaler markets  The culture of going in different shops, exploring things, bargaining and all has been missed from the market.

Aastha Kashyap