SHOPPING
Types of shopping malls
- Neighborhood Centers
- Community Center
- Regional Mall
- Super Mall
- Fashion/Specially Mall
- Power Center
- Outlet Mall
Key vocabulary
- Window shopping (n.) – the activity of spending time looking at the goods on sale in shop windows without intending to buy any of them
- Impulse buy (n.) – something that you buy suddenly and without thinking carefully
- Customer service (n.) – the part of an organization that answers customers’ questions, exchanges goods that are not satisfactory, etc.
- Luxury (n.) – great comfort, especially as provided by expensive and beautiful things
- Haggle (v.) – to attempt to decide on a price or conditions that are acceptable to the person selling the goods and the person buying them, usually by arguing
- Counterfeit (adj.) – made to look like the original of something, usually for dishonest or illegal purposes (n.) – an intention or aim; a reason for doing something or for allowing something to happen
- Shopaholic (n.) – a person who enjoys shopping very much and does it a lot
- Cheapskate (n.) – a person who is unwilling to spend money
- Discount (n.) – a reduction in the usual price
- Loyalty Card (n.) – a card that is given to a customer by a business, used by the business to reward the customer for buying goods or services and to record information about what they buy
Expression
- A steal – buying something at very good price or at a surprising low price
- Shop until you drop – to do a lot of shopping
- To be on tight budget – to have limited amount of money to spend
- To try something on – to see if item of clothing fits or is suitable
- To shop around – to try different shops to find the best deal