Otázka: Shopping
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): paja
Introduction
Most of the people do the shopping because they have to. They have to buy food, clothes, sometimes equipment. Or they just want to have anything new. Some people, especially women and girls, love shopping. They can’t live without it. It’s necessary for them to go through the shop and look what new they have and what is cheaper and what is more expensive. It’s a form of relaxation for them, which costs them a lot of money. Sometimes they buy stupid things just to have them. Useless clothes etc. Some of us have to go to the shop to buy some presents. It’s a disaster usually, especially with men. They go and go and don’t know what to buy.
Shopping in my family
My mother goes to the shop almost every day after work. She buys bread or rolls, sometimes some fruits and vegetable. On Friday she has a big shopping for a weekend. Usually we go to the supermarkets like a Kaufland or Tesco- there are all things for everyday life, but we can find there too things for garden or food for pets for example. And the prices are positive for our wallets. But in my village we have only two small markets and we buy there only sometimes.
Window shopping
- · it has got a lot of advantages – you don‘t need money
– you can see a lot of interesting things without entering to the shop Þ you don‘t have to queue
– you can have a nice survey about prices or new kinds or trends
- · I do this when I have nothing to do, when I wait for the bus or for friends…
Buying presents
I don‘t like buying presents because I never know what to buy. I hate buying useful presents. I think present should be anything special not ordinary things which you will use every day. But I think I have good imagination, so I like fabrication of original presents.
Shopping is pleasant when I have nothing to do, a lot of time and a lot of money. If you have money you can choose, if don’t, you have to buy what is. I know it from the time when I needed a lot of sports equipment. It’s true that in some sort of things “the more expensive the better quality”. Shopping is usually pleasant when I can choose but sometimes it’s unpleasant because I don’t know what to buy, I can’t decide. And when I buy anything I say to myself “I should had taken anything different, it would have been definitely better…”
Different kinds of shops:
- · stalls – standing in the streets and squares or at the tube-stations (many of their keepers are Vietnamese)
– you can buy watches, jeans or shoes cheaper than anywhere else, but this goods often have terrible quality – lose colours, shape, …,
- · self-service shops or supermarkets – bigger, you can buy also goods from chemist or ironmonger here
- · hypermarkets – very large, sell all possible kinds of food and kitchen and house needs
- · department stores – usually huge buildings equipped with speedy lifts and escalators, where you can buy almost everything from food to furniture
- · big markets, which are sponsored from abroad, could be dangerous for small private shops, because they can push off them
- · TV shopping – adverts on TV, you can phone and they will post you the goods
- · Internet shopping – you search an Internet page of some shop and you can find the prizes and you can order some goods or duties, you can send money from your bank account for programs’ registration
- · Interactive shops – in isn’t ordinary yet, they just try it in some countries, you can order something through your TV set – very comfortable
Shopping in department stores x normal shops
Department stores
It‘s more comfortable, you can buy everything there, you are in one building, you don‘t have to travel through whole town, you can spend whole day there. There is a big choice there. There is a lot of space there but sometimes there could be a big amount of people. There could be some problems with service. If there is a lot of people you can‘t find a staff, you can get lost – it‘s dangerous for small children. The prizes are higher.
Normal shops, boutiques
There is not everything in one shop, you have to go to more shops, you have to queue in every shop, there is lesser choice there, you are served, it’s cheaper, in the village it’s more familiar, there is often full so there is lack of space, it’s not open whole day or on weekends, old people can have a chat.
I prefer department stores to ordinary shops. You have to visit a lot of shops and there are different goods in every shop. I choose something but don’t buy it and I go to another shop then I have to go back. You have better choice but it lasts very long. Department stores are the best If you want to buy only food I thing. You don’t have to go to bakery, butcher, fruit, etc.
Shopping in the town ´ in the village
- · town – many kinds of shops, you can choose one which is the best one
– there is bigger competition – lower prices.
- · village – one shop dictates the prices, good relationships between customers and shop assistants
– not enough chances for shopping
– terrible duties, a little goods
How shops try to influence customers
Adverts, lower prizes, competitions, special offers – summer or winter reductions (slevy), customer can taste the food or try to drive a car, close-out-sales, special gifts for buying something. They put the most expensive things in the height of your eyes and cheaper goods somewhere down so you see the most expensive things first.
Shopping in our country x GB
Czech Republic
- · in the Czech Republic there are more possibilities for private shops and duties after revolution in 1989
- · shops aren’t only Czech, but also foreigner companies discovered our market for their business, we can meet with many foreigner shops (Makro, Bauhaus, Kauflland, Salamander…)
- · our businessmen have to count with a big competition from abroad. It could be good for customers, because the Shopkeepers must keep the prices low.
- · we can buy cloth in the boutiques, but there are all kinds of cloth very expensive, because those are originals
Great Britain
Big supermarkets; out of the city; people do big shopping; they pay with credit cards not in cash
Tesco – supermarkets for not very rich people, the goods isn’t arranged very well, lower prices
Harold’s – for very rich people, you don’t see prizes, staff is very polite, dressed in special costumes, it has got long tradition, you have to be well dressed to get in
Marks & Spencer – clothes shop, not very expensive for English
Body shop – small shops, very expensive, cosmetics, natural products, not tasted on animals, nothing artificial
Boots – chemist’s, cosmetic, detergents, in the USA also some refreshment
One pound shop – very popular in GB, bad quality
Vocabulary
trade, trader obchod, obchodník
wholesale velkoobchod
retail maloobchod
market trh
exhibition gronds výstaviště
on the stall na stánku
department store obchodní dům
shop obchod
counter pult
self-service shop samoobsluha
pawnshop zastavárna
signboard vývěsní štít
store skladiště
supply, supplier dodávat, dodavatel
shop-keeper majitel obchodu
shop window výkladní skříň
buyer kupující
shop assistant prodavač
customer zákazník
consumer goods spotřební zboží
articles druhy zboží
first class goods prvotřídní zboží
quality goods kvalitní zboží
deal in st. obchodovat s něčím
large assortment velký sortiment
keep a shop mít obchod
in stock na skladě
out of stock vyprodáno
for sale na prodej
purchase koupě
do the shopping dělat nákupy
enter the shop vejít do obchodu
queue up for postavit se do fronty
attend obsluhovat
great demand velká poptávka
keep it for you schovat to pro vás
to sell quickly jít rychle na odbyt
consignment zásilka
clearance sale výprodej
bargain výhodná koupě
cash-desk pokladna
cashier pokladní
wrap up the parcel zabalit balíček
wrapper obal
offer nabízet
deliver dodat
order objednávka
deposit záloha
fixed price pevná cena
prices range from to ceny se pohybují od do
reduced/cut prices snížené cena
make out a bill for vystavit účet pro
pay the bill platit účet
prices are going up ceny stoupají
guarantee certificate záruční list
competition konkurence
push off vytlačit
shopping list nákupní lístek
developed rozvinutý
influence ovlivnit
in my case v mém případě
compromise kompromis
exchange výměna
purse peněženka
advertising reklama
payments:
in cash v hotovosti
by cheque šekem
by credit card kreditní kartou
on hire purchase koupě na splátky
pay interest platit úroky
shops:
antique shop starožitnictví
bakery pekařství
butcher řeznictví
clothes shop konfekce
confectioner’s cukrárna
diary sells mlékárna
drapers obchod s látkami
drugstore, chemist’s drogerie
drycleaner’s čistírna
electrical appliances elektro
fishmonger obchodník s rybami
florist květinářství
fruiterer’s ovocnářství
gift shop suvenýry
greengrocer zelinářství
grocery potraviny
haberdashery galantérie
ironmonger železářství
jewellers klenotnictví
lingerie prodejna spodního prádla
newsagent’s prodejna novin
shoemaking trade obuvnictví
stationer’s papírnictví
tobacconist’s trafika
toy shop hračkářství
wine-merchant obchod s vínem
