Shopping in britain

The main street of most towns is often called High street.There is a lot of different shops.Grocer sells food and other household goods.The D.I.Y. shop sells materials and tools to decorate houses.The health food shop sells wholesome food.There is dry cleaner for your dirty clothes.There is often cornershop on the corner of the street.The cornershops are often newsagents and small grocers.Many of famous department stores are in London.Harrods on Brompton Road - the biggest department store in Europe.You can buy there everything what you want and send it ewerywhere you want.You can buy there things with Harrods logo in the Harrods shop on the fourth floor.Selfridges on Oxford Street sells almost everything.Liberty´s in Malborough Street is in Tudor-style.John Lewis in Oxford Street sells textiles and households goods.Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge sell clothes and expensive gifts.The fashion department for young people under ground floor is called Zone.Most town centre shops open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Most British shops close one afternoon a week.This is called half-day closing.It is usually on Mondays or Wednesdays.Chain stores have branches in most cities.For examples Marks and Spencer(often called Marks and Sparks) has more than 280 stores in the U.K. Other chain stores are Laura Ashley(sell old-style clothes, fabrics and wallpapers), Next(sell fashionable clothes and accessories), Boots(sell medicines, cosmetics and electrical goods), W.H.Smith(sell newspapers, magazines, books and records).Some goods are sold in metric measures but most people still use imperial measures such as pints istead of litres, feet instead of metres, pounds instead of kilograms.