What happens when chain stores take over?

To an ordinary person who just wants to buy his necessities at a shop and go home, chain stores are the best thing. These stores contain everything they would like to buy, so instead of going to multiple shops, they visit one chain store and buy the goods they need. This destroys the local community in an area.

A community is a collection of small interactions between people on the streets of a neighbourhood. The more these interactions are, the closer the people of a neighbourhood get to each other. Imagine that instead of going to a huge shopping centre by car, you walk to different shops and talk to your neighbours who own those shops. This makes the sense of community between you and your neighbours stronger. Shopping centres do not create this strong sense because the shop assistants do not own the shops and are often from other places in town. As a result, neither the shop owners nor the workers feel that they belong to the neighbourhood they work in.

Furthermore, since chain stores and big shopping centres sell their goods with lower prices and receive financial help from the government, people abandon the local shops, and as a result, local businesses close after a while. This destroys the economy of the neighbourhood and forces the local business owners to move to another place.