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SHOPPING: A MUST AND A PLEASURE

Shopping can be both a "must" and a pleasure. Those who hate shopping place their orders by telephone and it saves them a lot of time. Ordering food products by telephone is therefore growing more popular. Some make a hobby of shopping tours, it doesn't matter whether they actually buy any things or are just window-gazing. Besides, most housewives would like to see what they are getting for their money and do their shopping out themselves.

Different as people's feelings about shopping are, you somehow couldn't think of shopping for provisions in terms of pleasure, you always think of it in terms of necessity.

I am also a regular customer at one of the big Gomel supermarkets. When you come to the supermarket, you see the following picture a huge sales floor with pretty pyramids of goods, a lavish assortment of groceries, bakery and confectionery goods, canned vegetables, fruit and dairy products; wines, spirits, mineral water, juices and syrups. Perishables - cold meats, meat, fish, milk and all dairy products - are kept in special reach-in refrigerator units. Fresh vegetables, fruit and citrus fruits are displayed in trolleys. There is a special stand with all sorts of household knick-knacks, where every housewife is bound to buy something. There is a large range of baby foods. Each item has a label which indicates the date, price, weight and cost.

A large number of items on sale, the open display of goods, the possibility to buy everything in one shop and the swift service draw customers to such shops from the day they opened. The population of the district is very pleased with such new shops. I went there yesterday and enjoyed myself very much wandering from one department to another, looking at various articles on the counters. I thought the assistants were very helpful.

We all wear clothes, and that is another necessity next to provisions. I always do shopping for clothes in one and the same big shop

Very often I go the the Central Department Store. It's a multistoried building where one can get everything in the way of food and manufactured goods: kinds of food staffs: meat, fish, tinned food, sausage, fruit, wine, sweets, chocolates, etc. There were on sale: haberdashery, stationery, hosiery, leather-wear, knitwear. I was impressed by a great choice of silk skirts and shirts, different kinds of frocks and coats, leather boots and shoes, woolen pullovers and sweaters, jeans and suits, jackets and blouses, bags and wallets. There one can get everything in the way of clothes wanted by men, women and children: footwear, knitwear, ready-made clothes, furs, and what not. On the first floor of the Department Store I could see all kinds of household utensils: crockery, china, electric appliances, cutlery, pots and pans, vacuum-cleaners, washing-machines, cameras, radio and television sets, computers, stereo cassette recorders and many other things one may want in the house. Besides, there were perfumery, florist's gift and souvenir departments


Date: 2016-01-14; view: 1835


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