Week 4 - Streets without shops: how apps are transforming our local neighbourhoods

The on-demand services offered by apps like Uber, Laundrapp and Shoe Drop could be the nail in the coffin for some street-level businesses, and help spur gentrification. But who loses out?

This article is about how apps are becoming the new way to go shopping, buy food, order clothes etc. It goes on to state how restaurants and other food places will soon go out of business due to apps taking over, “I don’t think any London restaurant would survive these days with current rent prices without Deliveroo or similar apps". 
  
Furthermore, the article goes into detail about how London 'used' to

be a diverse place where people used to go
out and buy things or just even go 'window shopping'. However, due to apps, people no longer do this as they're able to access everything and buy everything through apps on their mobile phones. “London areas like Hackney or Newham were the most diverse (in terms of how many people from other areas visit the area) based on our metrics, but also some of most deprived neighbourhoods in London.”  

I do agree with this article, as I believe since technology has developed more and more apps have been released where audiences are able to order whatever they want, whenever they want, just with a simple click. 
This therefore, impacts restaurants and shopping centers as nobody goes out of their way to buy things, instead they stay indoors and buy everything through apps.