106-教师讲义-shoppingintheStates.doc

Shopping in the States I love shopping, even if it is just window-shopping. 橱窗购物 ，只看不买 Shopping in the States is always a pleasant experience. There are different types of shops catering to your particular needs. To buy groceries（食品杂货）, you can go to the convenience store, the supermarket or the mass merchandiser（商人） such as Wal-Mart . To buy some clothes and big-ticket items, you can go to the mall （购物商场）or factory outlet（批发商店）s. I go to two places most often, the supermarket and the mall. In almost every city or large town, you can find several big chain supermarkets, each with a good number of checkouts（结账台）.【 They are one-stop shops 一站式商店 since you can buy almost everything there: food, clothes, and medicine---you name it.】 【Installed with automatic checkout lanes付款通道, some of these supermarkets have brought real convenience to the customers.】 Most packaged goods have barcodes（条形码） and you just scan（扫描） them on the scanning machine when you check out. Some items, such as vegetables and fruits, do not have barcodes on them.【 You need to input（输入） their label numbers商标代码, which can be found on the list glued to the scanning machine.】 These automatic checkout lanes help the stores reduce their labour cost and increase their efficiency. I was really thrilled（兴奋，激动） the first time I used the automatic checkout lane. Shopping in the supermarket gave me other surprises as well. Once, I picked up two bags of salad at a supermarket. When I scanned them, the screen showed a different price from what was advertised. Out of curiosity, I went to the customer service counter and asked why. The lady who helped me went to the shelf to double-check the price. When she came back, she apologized to me, saying that the supermarket had not scanned the price properly. 【According to their policy, if the customer discovered a scanning problem, he would get the product for free as a reward for him or a penalty（罚款，处罚） for the supermarket.】 When I left with the two bags of free salad,