According to the former head of immigration and naturalization service, how are today's neighborhood stores similar to and different from the old neighborhood stores

following decades, shopping migrated out to supermarkets and, later, malls and big-box stores.

Explanation:

in the past, people did their shopping close to home, everyone knew everyone, they were like a family. Its refelect cultural and  social life. These are low cost, so everyone in the neighborhood went there to shop.  

But nowadays, shopping migrated out to supermarkets and, later, malls and big-box stores, because families acquired  cars and driving has been growing at such a rapid pace. Therefore, neighborhood stores have fewer and fewer customers.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

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