Different attitudes towards shopping: 

• Spendthrifts – Some people love shopping and i tis a big passion for them. They are big spenders – spendthrifts. 
• Misers (Scrooges) – On the other hand, there are misers who save up their money and hunt for discounts, sales and bargains.  
• ‘Shopping is a waste of time’ – Others hate shopping, and it is a waste of time for them.  

Types of shops: 

• department stores – large multi-storey buildings. They sell almost everything: furniture, clothes, sporting goods, electrical appliances, stationery, plush toys, dolls, games, jewellery such as rings, earrings, watch, pottery=ceramics.  
• supermarkets – they sell especially foodstuffs, fresh fruit, vegetable, and household goods, e.g., cleaning products and kitchen equipment. Supermarkets are with self-service. 
• small shops – they are popular for their friendly atmosphere. Here belong: grocer’s, baker’s, butcher’s greengrocer’s stationer’s chemist’s bookshop, florist’s, boutique.  
• shopping malls – they are for shopping and some additional services such as a hairdresser, beautician, cinema, fitness, various restaurants, and café bars where people can relax and get some refreshments, there are sales, discounts, and bargains at any time of the year.  

Tips on ‘How to avoid spending too much money’ 

1. First of all, always make a shopping list (things that you want to buy) 
2. Secondly, never go shopping with an empty stomach’ cos you will buy useless things when you are hungry.  
3. Next, pay in notes and coins (pay in cash), no by a credit card where you have an unlimited sum of money.  
4. Above all, limit the time spent in shops.   

SMALL SHOPS

AT THE GROCER’S, people can buy food including flour, sugar, salt, eggs, vegetable, oil, various kinds of tea and coffee, bottled beer and juice, sweets, chocolate. There are also dairy products such as milk, butter, cream, cheese, and yoghurt.
You can get various kinds of fresh bread, rolls, buns, pies, and cakes AT THE
BAKER’S.

THE BUTCHER sells meat, including pork, beef, lamb, veal, and poultry (chicken, turkey, duck). Here we can buy smoked meat products such as ham, bacon, sausages, salami, and frankfurters.

AT THE STATIONER’S we can buy all kinds of stationery, e.g., writing paper, envelopes, notebooks, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, pencils, glue, rubber, rulers, stapler, hole-punch, paper clips, and compasses.

AT THE GREENGROCER’S, we have a wide selection of fresh fruit and vegetables. Vegetables often used for cooking such as potatoes, carrot, onion, garlic, cabbage, beans, cauliflower, and cucumbers.

THE CHEMIST’S is a shop where people can buy medicines and cosmetic products. In America, the chemist’s shop is called a drugstore. Here we buy hair cosmetics, shower gels, skin creams, toothbrushes and toothpaste, washing powder, soap, shaving cream, shaving foam and perfumes.

BOUTIQUES sell the latest fashion and brand-name clothes. There is a wide choice of fashionable dresses, shirts, skirts, blouses – made of cotton or silk, pullovers, including the trendy polo-neck pullovers, blue jeans, stockings, and scarves. Boutiques also offer leather goods such as leather jackets, shoes, bags, and leather belts.