Shopping Vocabulary

Useful Vocabulary

*Shop(-s)


*Customer(-s)


*Cashier(-s)


*Wallet(-s) and Purse(-s)


*Till(-s)


*Trolley(-s)


*Shelf(-ves)


*Barcode(-s)


*Bag(-s)


*Basket(-s)


*Changing Room(-s)


*Escalator(-s)


Ways to pay


*Cash


*Credit card(-s)

Mr. Bean in shopping

Going Shopping

A video made for senior high school students in Japan who are learning English. Contains useful phrases needed to shop in English.

Come on! Let's go shopping

Shopping Stores

The best are the shops at the mall.
So let us show you the types of stores there and what they contain.

Shopping Centre

A shopping mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplace.

Modern "car-friendly" strip malls developed from the 1920s, and shopping malls corresponded with the rise of suburban living in many parts of the Western World, especially the United States, after World War II. From early on, the design tended to be inward-facing, with malls following theories of how customers could best be enticed in a controlled environment. Similar, the concept of a mall having one or more "anchor" or "big box" stores was pioneered early, with individual stores or smaller-scale chain stores intended to benefit from the shoppers attracted by the big stores.