It's all depends on the line of business that you are into. There are types of businesses that have settings and spacing, and such need to be respected. If it's a business, they have associations; you need to check if such is allowed. In my area, there is an approved spacing for medical stores.
But if it's just a regular business where all you need is to strategise your pattern of marketing and make sure that you retain the customer you already have sometimes won't even leave you unless you were not treating them right, that's when your competitor will buy them over.
That may happen in some places but in other conditions when there is competition that occurs in business matters, of course, it is a very natural thing and does not need to be considered as a thing that is considered to be a real problem when we do business well.
Because in the end before starting to talk about competition, of course the focus in doing business or business is back to ourselves whether in the end we are able or not to establish ourselves in that position (as a businessman). Because in the end when we talk about business, it is certain that our mentality must be really strong to face anything including trade competition. Indeed, in this case when we lose the competition, the risk of destruction may exist but in the end when we establish ourselves, for example when you make a shop to sell medicine or whatever, we must certainly establish ourselves with service and of course quality because in the end, although everything is left to consumers when talking about competition, in this case they will definitely choose what they are comfortable with and think is worth visiting. Because in the end business competition is inevitable, we must at least make ourselves worthy of being able to compete better than competitors.