Shopping in Britain:
British shops open at 9.00 a.m. and they close at 5.30 or 6.00 p.m. British shops don’t close for lunch. Most shops are closed on Saturday.
On one or two days a week – usually on Thursday or/and Friday some large shops are open until about 8.00 p.m. for late night shopping.
Most British families don’t buy their milk or newspapers from a shop, a milkman and a paperboy or a papergirl bring (deliver) them.
MARK AND SPENCER is a large clothes and food supermarket.
BOOTS is another large shop that sells records, radio and hi-fi (video, YV sets) and is also a chemist’s.
HARRODS is a department store. It is a tourist attraction in London, like Buckingham Palace or the Tower in London. There can be about 50 000 customers a day. It opened in 1849. HARRODS service rich people. It has 230 departments, among them 16 food halls and 34 for fashion, a library, a bank, a kennel for customers’ dogs.
SELFRIDGE’S is a big department store in Oxford street London. It looks like a palace.
SMITH is a national chain of shops which sell newspapers and magazines. SMITH’S also sells books, records, stationary, pens.