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Nobody can deny that supermarkets are very convenient. The whole idea behind them is that they give customers more choice at a cheaper price. But the current fashion of building enormous supermarkets on the outskirts of towns is having the opposite effect. These supermarkets are putting small shopkeepers out of business. Shops in town centres are closing down because they cannot compete with the low prices the big supermarkets are able to offer their customers. Town centres are dying. Instead of shopping in town, people are driving to the out-of town supermarkets, buying all the food they need for a week or two, then driving home again. That is their choice. But soon they will have no choice in the matter, because all of the shops in their town will have closed down. This is why some town councils are refusing to give supermarket chains permission to build in their region because nobody wants to live in a ghost town.