Consumerism

Question 1

🚗🏷🧾⛔️🆕car boot sale (n phr) : an event in a public place where ppl sell their unwanted possessions, often from the backs of their cars

Answer 1

I got this nice lamp from a car boot sale

Question 2

Customer service

Answer 2

Our main concern is to provide quality customer service

Question 3

🏬🏪🧾🏷 department store (n phr) : a large shop that is DIVIDED INTO SEVERAL PARTS , each part selling a different type of goods ( KTM bách hoá)

Answer 3

The department store consists of over 100 stores

Question 4

🏷⛔️🆕⬇️💸 flea market (n) a market that sells second-hand goods at low prices

Answer 4

There’s a flea market every Monday in the school parking lot

Question 5

Outdoor market (n phr)

Answer 5

There are 200 stalls in the outdoor market

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Retail outlet (n our) a store that sells goods to the public [ cửa hàng bán lẻ ]

Answer 6

Their albums are available only online , not at any retail outlet

Question 7

💁💸 vendor (n) a person who sells things, for eg : food, and newspapers, usually outside on the street

Answer 7

Jewelry, leather, and clothes are offered by street vendors at every corner

Question 8

Antique (n) an object such as a piece of furniture that is old and often valuable

Answer 8

We went for a browse around on an antique shop

Question 9

🧱 ceramic (n) objects made of clay that has been made permanently hard by heat

Answer 9

The walls and floors are clad with ceramic tiles

Question 10

🚜🧑‍🌾 farm produce (n our) goods from farms like vegetables and fruits

Answer 10

The farmers of the neighboring villages come to sell their farm produce and traders of crops buy them

Question 11

👠👟👞 footwear (n) things that ppl wear on their feet, for eg: shoes and boots

Answer 11

There’s a footwear store around the corner where you can get a nice pair of boots

Question 12

🍸🍷 glassware (n) objects made of glass

Answer 12

They had boxed the glassware and books before the movers came

Question 13

🙌 handicraft (n) is the activity of making attractive objects by hand

Answer 13

The huge market is noted for superb local food specialists and handicrafts

Question 14

Mass-produced (a) produced in large quantities, using machines

Answer 14

Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store

Question 15

Second-hand (a) not new

Answer 15

I made a great find in that second-hand bookshop 📚🏪 yesterday

Question 16

🪡🧵 textile (n) a type of cloth made by weaving or knitting

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The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour

Question 17

To specialize in sth: to offer a particular product or service more than any other, usually so that u have a good reputation for this product ( chuyên s/x về 1 cái gì đó)

Answer 17

They specialise in outside clothes

Question 18

Brand name (n our) the name given to a product by the company that produces it
=> thương hiệu

Answer 18

Gucci is a global brand name

Question 19

Consumerism (n) the state of an advanced industrial society in which lots of goods are bought and sold (CN tiêu dùng)

Answer 19

She was appalled by the greed and rampant consumerism she saw in modern society

Question 20

Impulse buying (n) buying goods without planning to so in advance, and without thinking abt it carefully

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They display chocolates next to supermarket checkouts to encourage impulse buying

Question 21

In the sales ( adj phrase) at a time when many stores have a sale

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I bought these shoes in the sales

Question 22

On sale

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A lot of items are ON SALE

Question 23

To go on a shopping spree (v phr) to shop excessively

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She earns an enormous budget so she always goes on a shopping spree

Question 24

👗💳🛍️🛒 shopaholic (n) a person who enjoys shopping very much and spends too much time or money doing it

Answer 24

My mom is a shopaholic. She has bought TONS OF THINGS she doesn’t even use

Question 25

To bargain (v) try to make sbd agree to give you sth that is better for you, such as a better price or better working conditions ( mặc cả, trả giá)

Answer 25

In the market, dealers were bargaining with growers OVER the price of coffee

Question 26

To browse (v) to look at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for 1 particular thing

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A: “ Are u looking for anything in particular, sir?” B:” No, I'm just browsing”

Question 27

Shop until you drop (v our) to buy things until you are tired and cannot walk around the shops anymore

Answer 27

You will love going shopping there. It” so cheap, you can shop until you drop

Question 28

🪟👀⛔️💸 window shopping (n phr) the act of looking at the goods in shop window, usually without attending to buy anything

Answer 28

98% of the the store”s traffic is window shopping rather than spending