Topic: Shopping - part 1

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Shopping

Do the shopping

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Type of stores:

  a) Supermarket:siêu thị

  b) Department store/ Shopping mall: trung tâm thương mại  

  c) Convenient store: cửa hàng tiện ích 24/7

  d) Grocery store: cửa hàng bách hoá

  e) Mom-and-pop store: những cửa tiệm tạp hoá nhỏ do hộ gia đình kinh doanh

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Purchase, buy

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Window shopping

To go window shopping

If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of the shops without intending to buy anything.     

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To browse /braʊz/

to look through a book or magazine without reading everything, or to walk around a shop looking at several things without intending to buy any of them

*I don't like going into clothes shops where they don't leave you in peace to browse.

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To put in = to spend

I (don’t) put in a lot of time shopping.

I put in about 2 hours of shopping every week.

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e-commerce

I involve in e-commerce when I need to buy something.

I bought and sold things through e-commerce.

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On sale

[US] = going cheap, reduced, at a discount, at a reduced price

* He bought a sports jacket on sale at the store.

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Try on

Try on clothing and shoes to make sure they fit.

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Discount (n) /ˈdɪs.kaʊnt/

Discount (v) /dɪˈskaʊnt/

You get a discount if you buy four ink cartridges.

Our entire inventory is discounted below retail prices.

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Refund (n) /ˈriː.fʌnd/

Refund (v) /ˌriːˈfʌnd/

I took the radio back to the shop and asked for/demanded/got/was given a refund.

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Bargain (v, n) /ˈbɑːr.ɡɪn/

bargain hunters

(n) something on sale at a lower price than its true value:

*Houses in this area used to be a real bargain, but they're not cheap any more.

* She's got a good nose for a bargain.

(v) to try to reach an agreement with someone in order to get a lower price:

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Reservation (n) /ˌrez.ɚˈveɪ.ʃ^ən/

I'd like to make a table reservation for two people for nine o'clock.

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Tag (n)

A price tag

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Groceries         

the food and other items that you buy in a food store or supermarket:

* My wife wrote a check to pay for groceries.

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Wander

We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.

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Aisle /aɪl/

Shopping online means you avoid the crowded supermarket aisles.

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Shopaholic (n)

a person who enjoys shopping very much and does it a lot:

* She is a shopaholic and is very concerned with her clothes and physical appearance.

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to afford

I can't afford to buy a house.

Few people are able to afford cars like that.

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to shop around

to look for the best price

IDIOMS

To buy many things (often without thinking too much about the cost)