Question

what is the impact of shopping malls on small vendors or merchants

Answer 1

It has a great impact on small vendors and merchants as they are the ones who are trading with the lower community or with the distributor and pays a lot to buy the goods with them as they charge on the merchants with some of their own interests. And another big factor behind it is that in shopping malls almost every rich and middle class/ rich community goes there for shopping as according to their belief of "BRAND" always comes across them due to which they pay a little more heavy rather than buying with the small vendors.
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