Why not have a "shopping area" in every locality, say in every block of houses? That way you would be employing people and people would just "walk" to get ever

Why not have a "shopping area" in every locality, say in every block of houses? That way you would be employing people and people would just "walk" to get everything. Hyper-Local stores would only keep most essential in demand products while you'd have to go out and buy from big stores something niche.