Know-How Exchange : Student Questions

I had to look up "interfere with" to see if interfere could mean both positive and negative context, or if it is only negative. One of the definitions my dictionary gave was "to hinder", which says that it is negative impacts only.

Can you give me a definition of "traditional shopping"? I think this just means the way that shopping has occured for many years (local stores, etc.), but wanted to make sure that was the intent.

If my definition for traditional shopping is correct, I would say that globalization does not hinder traditional shopping directly.

The reason I wanted to know if "interfere" could be positive, is that globalization in general lowers the cost (and sales price) of goods sold. This would help the shopping process, as the consumer would get a lower price.

Hindering would come if globalization moved towards a method of changing thew ay which shopping is done (such as if people ordered things directly from a foriegn country, removing the middle men in your local country). This has not occured in the States (and I assume not in NZ, and likely won't due to high shipping costs and burdonsome customs regulations.

Globalization has impacted some countries through new styles of retailers moving into new countries. An example is the "big box" retailers (CostCo, WalMart, etc.) moving into countries that didn't have anything like that before. When these big box stores move in, often the small "mom and pop" stores can not compete, and go out of business.