ABSTRACT
Shops are to be found in high streets, shopping centres, town centres, housing estates, villages, and around markets. Shopping facilities reflect local needs and demands, local salary ranges, the age of local people, property, and regional tastes. Service outlets, offering to sell a service rather than a product, are invariably more highly specialized than retail outlets selling products. Many schools organize price comparison exercises and outings to shopping centres. Department stores are a mixture of the specialist shop and the multiple; there will be departments specializing in, for example, glassware, carpets and electrical appliances, and one ought to get a wide choice, somewhere between the multiple and the specialist shop. Market stalls are another place to look for low prices. They might offer fresh produce like fruit, vegetables, eggs and fish which are fresher, cheaper and in better condition than one can get elsewhere.
