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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Comparison and contrast - Final

Shopping places
Nowadays, we have two different places that we can buy things, on small grocery stores and large supermarket stores. Until now, many people always choose small stores to buy they need. Why don't they choose large supermarket stores? Therefore, we will talk about it in three points that are the prices, service and food.
The first point we will discuss is the prices. Recently, most products for daily use are expensive getting more and more, so people always compare the prices before buying. We always buy a lot of goods from large supermarket stores because they are wholesales and the unit price will be low. Small grocery stores retail their goods and sometimes their unit price is low, too because small grocery stores are set up in some small towns and they often can not get much information about rising the price. In general, large supermarket stores' price will be lower than small grocery stores.
The second points is the service. Despite grocery stores are smaller than large supermarket stores, they still have a lot of goods and some employees that are the boss's family. If you buy a lot, they will provide the service that carries the goods to your home . And they also provide the place for elders to chat with. On the other hand, large supermarket stores don't have those service, they set up a service counter to solve some problems of customers such as the missing kids. And they also build the parking lots for customers to use.
The third point we will discuss is the food. Small grocery stores' food sometimes will be overdue because their customers are fewer than large supermarket stores. And their food's categories are less than large supermarket stores . Furthermore, the large supermarket stores provide cooked food for housewives foe their convenience.
It is very convenience to buy things in Taiwan. If you want to buy things, you can choose small grocery stores or large supermarket stores at any time.