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NOW MURCIA manifests, as it has always done, its opposition to the liberalization of the hours of the shops and the opening of the shopping centers new days a year, "since it supposes a new push of aid to the chains and large surfaces to the detriment of the retail, which can hardly cope with the hiring of new employees. "

Councilman Miguel Angel Alzamora says that "the liberalization of schedules, in addition, does not favor the creation of new jobs in the chains and large stores, but it adds precariousness to existing jobs and makes it even more difficult to reconcile work / family".

Alzamora emphasizes that "the public administrations have promoted in Spain and in particular in Murcia the model of 'American city', based on the promotion of large areas far from the city center, to the detriment of local and traditional commerce".

This model based on large areas "also encourages the use of private transport;

known are the traffic jams and the use of municipal services such as the Local Police on weekends at the entrances to these centers in the North of the city. "

"Thus, in the last decade," he adds, "Murcia's small and medium-sized businesses have been progressively threatened by large stores, with aggressive policies and economies of scale based exclusively on corporate profits and temporary employment and low quality, destroying many of the jobs in local and traditional businesses and relocating the benefits outside the city and even the country. "

Source: Ahora Murcia