Shopping and services

Shopping is an activity that is enjoyed by many poeple. People have more Money but less time to spoend it. I thing that some people likes schopping and some dont like shooping.

In the past pople bought more staple goods in local shops: fruits, vegatables, meat, bread.

Today myna families have a big freeezer and microwave. Tehy buy raedy propared meals such as pizza. They work too much so they do not have time to cook. They go schooping less often and buy all food they need at once.

There are individually owned schos and super markets which belong to a chain or a group, in big cities there are schppping malls.

At teh grocer ´s people can buy foodstuff including flour, sugar, salt, eggs, vegetable, fruit, tea and coffe, boottled beer and juice, chocolate, milk, cheese and yougurt.

At the bakerś various kinds of bread, rolls, buns, cakes.

Teh butcher sells meat uncluding pork, beef, lamb or poultry. Here we can bay some meat products such as ham, bacon, sausages.

At the stationerś writing paper, notebooks, pens, pencils, rubber, kept.

Boutigues sell the latest fashion.

The chemist´s ia a specialized schop where pople can buy medicines.

Typical examples of such shops are clothes schops, cake shops, shoe schops, chemistiś schops, pet schos, bookshops, baker ´s, goldsmithś, floristś.

Many people prefer shopping at the market where ther is a wider choice of potatoes, tomatoes, apples, bananas, oranges. Many people kike to go shopping to department stores.

The largest shop ia a hypermarket or superstore usually situated outside a town, with a large car park. Usually they have cash dispenser, petrol pumpos or a cafe. There are many products under one roof for low prices.

Many supermarkets have their own product brands. You can come with your trolley directly to your car nad many supermarkets offer you presents if you spend much Money in their shops.

I thing that people like supermarkets, because thay can find everthing they need there. Supermarket are big shops whit mostly sell food and standard toilet items. There are situated in cities and towns and some of them have parkins spaces.

In the past, people did the shopping in the High Street. Now they go to shopping centres. Shopping centre is a complex of smaller shops used by many companies whitch rent departments ans sell different products.

Small shops are more expensive but they have also advantages: if you live alone, you do not need so nuch food, or if you forget to buy something, you just go to your local shop nad get it. But few pople go to local shops, so many must close down.

Ther are also outdoor markets with many stalls selling fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, but also cheap or second-hand goods. Usually they start selling early nad finish in the afternoon.

Department stores are large buildings usually several storey high. There are also cafer, snack bars and restaurants where the peole can relax when they are tired of shopping. There ve pay at tah cash, credit cart.

A shopping mal lis the same as a shopping centre but enclosed (indoor) and much larger with the biggest ones on the edges of towns.

Nowdays, more peoôe prefer shopping in supermarkets ans stores, because itś very convenient to have so many products under one roof.