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.
My mother
goes to the shop regularly every day after work. She buys bread or rolls or
some sweets. On Friday she has a big shopping for a weekend. Sometimes My
father brings from Ostrava very big shopping usually some cartons of lasting
milk, cartons of juice, a lot of fruit and a lot of things which last long.
Time to time we go shopping to a big supermarkets like Makro or Kaufland and we
buy there things for a long time or we buy there some clothes and shoes.
· 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…
I don‘t
like buying presents because I newer 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 my imagination doesn‘t work well usually that time.
So I buy typical gifts like books, chocolates, cosmetic etc. It makes me mad
because it‘s still the same. And I‘m not able to found a new Idea.
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…”
· 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
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.
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.
· 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
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.
· 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
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
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
in cash v hotovosti
by cheque šekem
by credit card kreditní
kartou
on hire purchase koupě na
splátky
pay interest platit
úroky
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