Shopping

A lot of people think, that shopping is an unpleasant activity, because is wastes a lot of time. People expect stores to provide convenience, selection, service, quality and value. A store that is convenient is either located near your home or is easy to get to. I like shopping. I like to shop in hypermarkets, where I buy food, and in department store or shopping centre, where I buy clothes.

Grocery shopping is an essential part of daily routine. During the week my mother goes to buy to the lokal shop. When we want to do a lot of shopping very quickly, we go to Hypernova. There we go to buy on Saturdays. Hypernova is a shop, that is convenient. Here we can buy all, what we need. Hypermarkets have all of food. We buy there for example flour, sugar, macaroni or other forms of pasta, which is a favourite in our family. There is a bakery in Hypernova. It can be found very easily, because the air outside is full of the warm scent of fresh bread, rolls, buns and baguetts. We often buy – doughnuts or gingerbread. Then we go to buy meat. If we want to buy salami or meat, we must go to the butcher´s shop. In a well – stocked store we can buy salami, sausages, salads or we can buy pork, beef, mutton, lamb or poultry meat. These kinds of meat can be bought either pre-packaged or by weight. You can also choose from different kinds of specialitice. Sometimes we buy fish. My mother buys fish at the delicatessen. She buys mainly carp, trout, and salmon. Vegetebles are an important part of our diet. We eat them either fresh or cooked. We usually cook recipes, that include for examle potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers. There is usually a wide selection of fruit, that can be grown in our climate or a wide selection of exotic tropical fruit. The most frequently offered and sold products are different varieties of apples, oranges, lemons, bananas, kiwi fruit, pineapples, dates, mangos, plums and nuts.

We often buy in drugstore. Women can choose for example powders, lipsticks, eyebrow pencils. For men, there are electric shavers and various deodorants. We have to visit a pharmacy very often. There they help us, what we need to know and give.

I prefer to buy clothes to food. We can say, that each person has its own style and taste. There are a lot of kinds of shops now, which sell it, what we look for. I like to buy mainly T-shirts, jeans or trousers, and sweatshirts. When we want to buy clothes, we go to the shopping centre Carrefour, Zličín or Flóra, sometimes we go to Černý Most. Shopping centre or department store are shops, where they have a large variety of product available in several different stores all under one roof. The shop assistants serve us, give us professional advice, demonstrate the products. The shopping centre has a multitude of different shops, for example clothing stores for men, women and children, sports shops, photo shops, stationary stores, toy stores, shoe stores, furniture stores and fabric stores. The shopping centre is open everyday from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm. The differences between a department store and a hypermarket are price, and seling assortments. Hypermarkets sell mainly food and they have lower prices. They differ greatness of selling room.

Many peple who feel that they do not have time to go shopping, choose products from catalogues. They just fill out the order form, specificy the type, colour, and size. In just a few days or weeks, the new products arrive by mail. It is possible to buy washing machines, radioes, CDs, and all kinds or other things throuhg mail order. Sometimes come people to our door, who demonstrate their products. These new sales methods save time and are convenient for busy people. My family prefer buying in hypermarkets and shopping centre to buying with catalogues, because with shopping with catalogues we had problems with claim and delivery.  Window shopping is very interesting, too. I like it, because it is main reason, when I don´t know, if I have to go to store. Some window shoppings are good made. We can pay in cash and with credit cards. My family pay cash, because we think, that paying with credit cards wastes more time. In the Czech Republic is paid with crowns, but as state come to Europe Union, we will pay with Euro. It will be uncommon.

I like buying clothing and presents. I haven´t much money, I work sometimes in restaurant Woodoo, where I help my sister´s boyfriend. This restaurant is him. I have it as a part – time job to earn more money. I spent money for presents, sometimes food and telephone´s credit. I enjoy buying presents for my family and friends.

For Czech boys and girls shopping centres are places, where they can meet friends. They like to hang out here. I often have breakfast with my friend Jana in shopping centre Carrefour. Every Thuesday, when we have time, then we must go to school, we have breakfast here. Then we go to buy in stores, mainly to New Yorker, Orsay, Kenvelo. I think, that the shopping centre Carrefour is the most famous in Prague. I often go there. At the Christmas time the stores are decorated with thousands lights, balls and flowers. Famillies like to come – the Chritsmas atmosphere is fantastic and everybody can buy nice Christmas presents for the whole family here.