Shopping

Nowadays shopping is a modern kind of leisure time activity especially during the weekends.
Originally it was only necessary activity to buy some foods. Nowadays if we say shopping we usually have on our minds shopping of clothes. Especially in big cities the shops are still crowded.

    People in Czech Republic usually like shopping and they also usually want buy something new and save money so they do their shopping in periods of sales – it means after Christmas and in the end of each year’s season.
Opposite that British people don’t like shopping very much. They are going shopping because they must. So in Great Britain people usually buy only food and they do it only once a week when they do a big shopping (only fresh milk is delivered every day to their homes).

    People can do the sopping in supermarkets, department stores or in small shops.

SUPERMARKETS AND DEPARTMENT STORES
In the last years were built many supermarkets and department stores. They were usually built in suburbs of towns and cities. In these supermarkets you can buy everything what you want and need under one roof – it means that department stores save our time. In these big shopping centres there are more goods than in small shops, the goods are also cheaper but sometimes its quality isn’t too high. Disadvantage of doing shopping in supermarkets is commuting in it (because as I mentioned earlier they usually aren’t in centres of cities) and they are nearly always crowded. In these big supermarkets and department stores people usually do their big shopping once a week or sometimes they can go here to have a fun – for example to the cinema.

SMALL SHOPS
We can also doing our shopping in small shops. They are usually concentrated in centres of towns. Each shop specialize on some kind of goods it means there exist many types of these small shops. For example in
green grocer’s you can buy vegetables, in butcher’s meat, in stationary some exercises-books, pens or papers, florist’s specializes on flowers and plants and so on. In these small shops the goods usually have higher quality but there is usually smaller choice of the goods. I think that the shopping in small shops is more pleasant than the shopping in department stores where the shop assistants are sometimes impolite to customers. In small shops the salesmen are usually more helpful too.

    I am a teenage girl so I love shopping, especially shopping of clothes. I like going shopping to large cities like Praha because the shopping conditions in our town aren’t too good. Our town is quite small and there are only several shops situated in the square but they are expensive and they usually have little goods. If want buy some modern clothes I go for a trip to Prague or to some other city and I buy it in department stores specialized on clothes. I can do my shopping the whole day – I don’t mind it – I like it. In the department store you mustn’t only doing shopping you can sit in a café and have a rest for a while or you can go to the restaurant or fast-food to have a lunch or you can also visit the cinema.
In suburbs of our town there are several supermarkets where my family does the usual shopping. We always go by car there. It is comfortable for us because we live in an opposite suburb of the town than the supermarkets are built.

There are two possibilities how you can pay in the shops. It means paying by cash or by credit card. I usually pay by cash because I think that paying buy credit card lasts longer. But my mum pays more often by credit card. The biggest advantage of credit card is you needn’t have money in your purse you must have only one card – credit card.