09.12.

2020

Tiny Shop or a mall?

Filip Vopravil, Nový Porg

To this day, there are many arguments lead by shopaholics

associated with shopping. The thing they fight about is if it is better
to shop at a small shop or at a huge shopping center. These
arguments seem to have a focus on the price of items, service quality
and the quality of items.

To begin with, it is given that price is one of the most important

factors. Things should be cheaper in a little shop because the shop is
focused on that one thing, as a result, it buys only that one thing at a
cheaper price. Also, it is less visited, so they put smaller prices to
make more people come there. On the other hand, shopping centers
should have smaller prices because the items are bought in larger
quantities, because shops in malls are far more visited than local tiny
stores. Therefore, the price is about the same.

Secondly, service quality affects the overall atmosphere of

shopping, because if you have a shop where no one helps you buy,
you are not going to be happy with buying things there. Little stores
should have better services, because they have less people there to
help with buying and malls have more people coming so the service is
not that great.

Finally, it is without a doubt, that quality is as important as

price, because if you have something expensive, but it is not high
quality, you will be furious. Small shops tend to have items of better
quality than big malls because they are focused on that small thing,
hence they try to find the thing at the best quality. Also, as
mentioned earlier, shops in malls buy things at larger quantities and
the old saying “Quality isn’t quantity.” proves even worse quality of
the items.

To summarize this, even though the price is the same, the

service and item quality seems to be better in local businesses,
therefore I disagree, that it is better to go to shopping centers than to
small, local shops. I think, that if we would all go to small and local
businesses, we would be much happier.