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The lecturer discusses the drawback of replacing small stores to megastores. These include spending more money in the stores, being inconvenience to buy unique products, and providing low paying or part-time jobs. It is not beneficial not only to the consumers, but also to the local economies. This contradicts to the reading passage’s claims that super stores have several benefits both consumers and local economies.
To start with, the lecturer argues that consumers cannot save money in megastores, because some products are on sale, but the others are more expensive. Thus, overall prices should be paid more than small stores. This refutes the reading passage’s claim that megastores provide cheaper money, because they buy and sell large amounts of products.
Secondly, the lecturer insists that megastores are not convenient to buy no mainstream products, and it is not easy to find products in the shops. Furthermore, they deprive of the opportunity to purchase unique products, because they make small specialty shops close. This is also contradictory to the reading passage’s claim that superstores are quite convenient to purchase the products, since there are enormous items.
Lastly, giant super stores are not helpful to the local economies, because they offer low paying jobs, or part-time jobs. They do not provide any benefits to the employees and prevent to form a union. This refutes the reading passage’s viewpoints that megastores are advantageous to the local economies, because they provide too many positions. |