Shopping in our life

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Going shopping is a part of our everyday life. For some people it's a pleasant
pastime while for others it's an everyday routine. Some people like doing shopping
and they are happy if they can pick up a bargain in the sales(когда получается
удачная покупка), for others yawn (зивать) while walking along the shelves
in a shop. But whether you like shopping or not you have to do it because it's a
necessity.
I'd like to say that at present shopping has become more exciting than it
used to be several decades ago. Today people do a lot of shopping or at least window-
shopping (смотрим но не покупаем) every day, because all necessary
facilities are provided for them. In large cities and even in small towns there are all
kinds of shops and stores as well as supermarkets. 
Supermarkets are big self-service food shops (and not only food nowadays) where
one can buy a lot of goods cheaper than at local grocers. When people go to
supermarkets or other large food stores they are often looking for bargains ищет
выгоду. By the way these shops are brightly lit освещены and usually well laid out
хорошо все расставлено; pleasant music is always playing while you are walking
along the shop. The goods are tidily arranged on trays and long endless shelves on
which various prices are clearly marked. The shelves are well stocked хорощо
заподненный with a wide selection of attractively packed goods. Everything from
quick-frozen food to washing powder, from shoe-polish to new-laid eggs, from tinned
fish консервант to tooth paste can be bought there. All these things are displayed in
such a way that people are often tempted соблазнился вещи to purchase
things they don't need. It's a so-called marketing trick; that's why it's better to
make shopping list before going to a shop. With shopping list, you can avoid
извегать several costly mistakes like impulse purchases that will run up your
grocery bill and extra trips to the store. A shopping list can also help you to avoid
overbuying perishables скоропортящиеся so that you can eliminate
исключить wasteful spoilage. After a person has found everything he needs he
takes his trolley and goes to the cash desk where a casher reckons up рассчитывает
bills on a cash register. There are often long queues очередь there, but they do not
spoil портить the general pleasure of visiting such shops.
If you are going to buy some clothes, electrical appliances, souvenirs and so on,
the best place to visit is a department store универмаг. A department store is a store
which sells many different kinds of goods, each in a separate department. Modern
department stores serve the needs of the entire весь family.
Usually people enjoy buying goods in such shops as they can make all their
purchases покупка under one roof. A typical department store occupies a large
building with separate departments, located on a number of floors. Some departments
provide special services among them there can be a travel agency or a chemist's for
example. These stores started in America more than 50 years ago, and then the idea
was brought to European countries. And today we can hardly imagine our life without
these stores; people really enjoy shopping there.
Besides supermarkets and department stores every sizeable town has a
market where local people sell spare potatoes and carrots from their gardens and where
larger traders arrive in big trucks that are overloaded with melons, oranges,
bananas, etc in order to sell them. One can find dried fruit, cheese, nuts, honey, cereals
and other food in the markets as well. Markets are nice places to visit even if you don't
need to buy anything; go there early in the morning for the liveliest scenes живые
цены and you can also certainly bargain a bit over prices.
 If you don't want to spend a lot of money you can watch newspaper sales ads or
you may go to different sales: semi-annual-sales сезонный расспродаж and
annual sales, half-price sales, clearance sales обычно распр and many others. 
Certainly, some people dislike shopping and place their orders by the phone or
order goods on the Internet (it's becoming more and more popular). Today you can buy
everything on the Internet starting with books and finishing with clothes, but it's really
not easy to find a store with the best prices and more convenient подходящий
delivery hours because today there are so many stores and companies on the
Internet. When you make a request, they send you a courier or if you order a present
for instance например for your friend, they can deliver it directly to his or her
house. From time to time they offer a small gift or a free delivery. Another reason
why people prefer to use the Internet today to buy this or that thing is that it's time-
saving, because at present we want to save as much time as possible. In addition,
usually it's cheaper to buy things on the Internet, you won't face сталкиваться long
waiting lines in each register, endless queues and deal имеет деле with intrusive
навязчивый shop assistants. For all these reasons shopping on the Internet is a
great relief расслабление облегчение for many people. 
As for me, my experience of a shopper is very limited. As a rule, I go shopping to
the nearest shop to buy some bread, milk, yogurt, cheese, tea, etc. But even the idea of
doing this little shopping drives me mad thought I like delicious meals. When I
return home it often turns out that I have forgotten to buy something my mother needs
to prepare a dinner; even a shopping list doesn't help, because I usually leave it on my
table. 
If I need to buy some clothes and shoes I prefer to do it with my mum or friends.
And the worst shopping experience I had when I went shopping with my dad. It's a
well-known fact that women are not very quick shoppers while men usually are.
Women on the other hand seem less decisive when shopping; they enjoy spending
hours walking around the shopping mall. Men are much more decisive; they don't
like to shop for a long time. Men usually know exactly what they want and go out to buy
it, then come home and use it. Men tend to enjoy more doing than looking. So due to
different shopping habits of men and women sometimes shopping together can become
very challenging. It really happened so when I went shopping with my father. He
wanted me to buy the first thing that I tried on and he became very nervous when I
was saying that this or that thing was not suitable for me. So, after an hour of shopping
he became very tired and we returned home having bought nothing. Woman's
indecisiveness while shopping is nerve-wracking for men. Women tend to look at
all of the choices and discuss all of them, but men just buy something and move on. So,
shopping habits are different for men and women and it should be taken into
consideration. 
And in the end, I'd like to say that more often shopping is both a must and a
pleasure; and certainly, it's an unavoidable thing!