I have been thinking recently about the affect supermarkets and malss have had on us. It seems to me they have destroyed community. No longer do we meet in small shops, wait our turn, talk to others, and generally keep up with what is going on. people die at home and it can be weeks before anyone notices they are not around.some of the devastating effects of what's now called globalization, things we're hearing about now in many different ways.
Yes, supermarkets and malls do provide goods that would be otherwises hard to get but at what cost? Not just money.
Now e drive to the supermarket, getour stuff, and get out and rive hoem. or we go to the malls and do the same.
in out small town we no longer have a greengrocer. The butchers are not proper butchers-they don't don't butcher-it all comes ready butchered. When asking one for liver nad kidneys for my dogs, he screwed his face up as he said'disgusting'. I asked him what sort of butcher he was!
Big busines ahs destroyed small business and communities. Have we let them? Did we have a choice?
bw colin
