Even if you favor that sort of outcome, there are different ways of accomplishing it. The best ways would be the most direct and the most transparent, or else you end up with things like the farm subsidies, where, in the popular image, it's the small farmers producing local products that everyone wants to help, but the big agribusinesses that reap the benefits.
Off the top of my head, an alternate method of promoting small local shops would be tax discounts for family owned stores with only one location. This would help them compete without absurd, ham-handed intervention like the government dictating prices and opening hours.
Off the top of my head, an alternate method of promoting small local shops would be tax discounts for family owned stores with only one location. This would help them compete without absurd, ham-handed intervention like the government dictating prices and opening hours.