Shopping

#FoodForThought

❓1. What springs to mind when you hear the word “shopping”?

❓2. How do you like “shopping”? 

❓3. When and where do you often go shopping? Are you a bargain hunter?

❓4. Who do you usually like to go shopping with?

❓5. Do you have any shopping habits?

❓6. What are the differences between men and women in regards to shopping?

❓7. In your opinion, how should a person get rid of their bad shopping habits?

#Repository

🌀Bargain: a thing bought or offered for sale more cheaply than is usual or expected:

The secondhand table was a real bargain.

🌀Haggle: to dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something:

The two sides are haggling over television rights.

🌀Rip off: to steal or pilfer:

Look, you can get ripped off inside the arena for 35 bucks.

🌀Highway robbery: excessive profit or advantage derived from a business transaction:

What some rock superstars charge for concert tickets is simply highway robbery.

🌀Splurge: to spend money freely or extravagantly:

I'd splurged about $2,500 on clothes.

#Juxtapositions 

❇️Shopping: 

🔰Adjectives: 

Late-night, morning, weekend, Christmas, holiday, last-minute, a little, food, grocery, supermarket, car, clothes, dress, catalog, home, Internet, online, duty-free, tax-free, comparison, one-stop, serious, compulsive

🔅e.g.:

I thought we'd do a little shopping before the show.

I do the weekly shopping on a Saturday.

This website is a valuable resource for comparison shopping.

Jenny went directly to town for some serious shopping.

🔰Verbs: 

Be out, do, go, go out, come, take out

🔅e.g.:

She's doing some last-minute Christmas shopping.

We do our shopping on Saturdays.

I have to go shopping in town this afternoon.

Jade wants me to take her shopping for a new outfit.

🔰Nouns: 

Bag, basket, cart, list, area, district, complex, mall, plaza, strip, channel, network, site, website, service, destination, excursion, expedition, spree, trip, day, hours, season, experience, habits

🔅e.g.:

New York is supposedly the ultimate shopping destination. 

She won £10,000 and immediately went on a shopping spree.

Only 22 shopping days left until Christmas!

We ensure that our customers have an exceptional shopping experience.

🔰Phrases:

Be on someone’s shopping list

🔅e.g.:

A new car is on my shopping list.

Improved electricity generation is one of the first things on the country's shopping list.