SHOPS and STORES - some useful hints

Ensure that your purchases are rapped by the shop and leave them in the paper covering you are given until you have gone some distance from the shop or store. Do not transfer from one bag to another while you are in the store. Always use the baskets in self-service shops or supermarkets if they are provided for you to carry the goods you intend to buy.

Check when you pay that you are given a receipt for the right amount.

Keep your receipt safe until you reach home.

Always pay for goods before leaving a shop or a store. Failure to do so could lead to accusation of theft and police prosecution for shoplifting.

If items purchased are subsequently found to be unsuitable they should be taken back in the store’s wrapping with the original cash sales receipt.

Many department stores allow customers to pay for their more expensive goods by monthly installments after a deposit, a system known as “hire purchase”. Please think carefully before undertaking a hire purchase agreement (which is legally binding contract between you and the store) as this is the most expensive way to buy goods. Interest rates on credit terms are often extremely high.

Pickpockets operate in many of the large cities in Britain. They are very active in the West End of London, especially in the underground stations Bond Street, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square and in large shops and department stores. They also operate on buses, particularly when passengers are getting on and off.

Carry your wallet in an inside pocket, never in your back trouser pocket. If you take off your jacket, carry your wallet with you.

Do not carry a large amount of cash with you. If it is stolen or lost it is not likely to be recovered. Carry only enough cash to meet your day-to- day expenses. If you are staying in a hotel, hand any large sum of cash to the manager for safe keeping and obtain a receipt.

Hotels and hostels usually display a notice disclaiming responsibility for the loss of money and valuables that are left in rooms. It is in your interest to leave valuables and large amounts of currency with the hotel\hostel management and obtain a receipt for deposited items.

These are the names of goods one can buy in a shopping mall. Where particularly, in what store can one buy it?

An Omega watch, a Harry Potter book, Chanel perfume, a pair of Nike tennis shoes, a necklace, a Robbie Williams CD, dinner plates, a palmtop computer, a Four Seasons pizza

Bookstore, clothes’ store, department store, drugstore, electrical hardware store, household store, jeweler, movie theater, record store, restaurant, sports’ store.

Which of these thins do you buy when you’re away from your home?

Chocolate, clothes, cosmetics, food, hats, jewelry, key rings, pictures, souvenirs, toys.

Begin every sentence with the words: sometimes, always, if I don’t have any, in case I’d like to present somebody with…, in case I’m invited somewhere and etc.

Match these questions with the answers.

1. Do you enjoy shopping for gifts for others, and for yourself?
2. How often do you buy clothes for yourself?.
3. How much do you spend on clothes in a year?
4. Do you ever go shopping but buy nothing?
5. If you go to another country, do you usually buy souvenirs?
6. What do you do in shopping malls, apart from shopping?

Answers: a) Magnets

b) Once a month

c) Yes. When I don’t see I really like.

d) See movies, eat and hang out with friends.

e) Yes, shopping for others is fun.

f) Over a thousand dollars.

Match these comments with the questions above.

a. I usually don’t buy much for myself or others, but ay the moment I’m going through a phase of renovating my wardrobe and I’m spending lots.

b. I don’t enjoy shopping for myself. I leave buying gifts for other people to my wife. In my opinion women have better intuition.

c. No, I don’t enjoy shopping for gifts for myself or others. I personally believe in buying what is absolutely necessary, and what is not a gift. However, a lot of people enjoy shopping for gifts both for themselves and others.

d. Yes, sometimes I go but don’t see anything interesting or anything I like. I just go window-shopping and then I come back.

e. Key rings/ I always buy key rings and chocolate.

f. I’m not sure, it depends on how many parties I have! If I buy a Thai suit it’s quite expensive, both for the material and for making to order. Sometimes I buy the material and then the dressmaker makes it, so maybe 10,000 baht I think. Recently I bought a dress, a shirt, T-short, shoes, jeans.

g. People walk around and do some window shopping. You could go to MacDonald’s and have a coffee, you could go to a video bar and play video games or to a music shop and listen to music.

Say if you use these forms of payment, and if so, when.

Bills, cash, checks, coins, credit card, debit card, small change, traveler’s checks.

Read the text about haggling and say in which paragraph you can find out:

HAGGLING

1. Haggling, or bargaining, is like learning a language. At first you are slow and you make mistakes. After some practice, you get better and it starts to feel more natural. Before long you know what you’re doing without thinking about it.

2. You usually bargain for household and kitchen equipment, like plates and pots; handicrafts like jewelry and leather goods; house rental; taxi fares on long runs. Anything you buy from a street-seller, domestic help and services, such as the maid, or plumber.

3. You don’t usually bargain for cigarettes and alcohol; meals and drink in restaurants; bus fares; medical goods, price-controlled food such as flour, butter, sugar, oil, tea, and milk; goods with the prices marked.

4. Before you begin, make sure you know what something is worth; ask a friend for help. When you begin, don’t show too much enthusiasm. Appear to lose interest. Say you saw the same item for less in another store, or say you don’t have enough money. Then you can flatter the seller and his goods. You can make an offer and pull out your money, as if the seller has accepted it. If he doesn’t put your money away! But above all, don’t back out when the seller agrees to your price.

5. When the haggling is over, you probably got a bargain if you feel exhausted and relieved. If you think it was very easy, and the shopkeeper is smiling, you probably paid too much.

Work in pairs and answer these questions.

1. In which countries is it usual to haggle?

2. Do you bargain for things in your country?

3. If not, have you ever haggled for anything?

4. Do\did you find it easy?

5. Would you like to haggle for everything, for some items, or for none at all?

Read these statements and check the ones which are true for your country.

1. People usually don’t carry much cash.

2. They don’t use credit cards.

3. They don’t use checks.

4. They usually pay for everything with cash.

5. They buy everything from one kind of store.

6. Prices are usually marked on the goods.

7. It’s usual to haggle.

8. There are usually sales several times a year, when things are cheaper

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