Some specialized shops:

· Greengrocery: fruit and vegetables (ranging from products that can be grown in our climate to exotic tropical fruit.)
· Butcher: meat
· Baker: bread, cakes and pastry
· Fishmongers`: fish
· Sweet shop: sweet and ice cream
· Grocery: food and kitchen needs
· Florist: flowers
· Newsagent: newspapers and magazines
· Ironmonger: metal goods (tools, nails, materials etc.)
· Dairy: milk products and eggs
· Stationary: paper and office supplies
· Chemist`s: medicines and ointments, cosmetics etc.
· Haberdasher: buttons, threads, needles, pins etc.

Goods can be bought not only in shops and stores but also in outdoor markets. Almost all bigger towns have a market once or twice a week or permanent market. On the market you can buy cheap or second-hand goods, flowers, fresh fruit and vegetables.

A typically American kind of shop is the drugstore, which usually includes a chemist`s but also sells food, alcoholic drink, stationery and even clothes, as well as drinks and snacks. Rural areas often have roadside stalls where local produce is sold, and many cities have farmers markets`.
A typically British kind of shop is the corner shop. Eightyseven per cent of British people live less than a mile from their local corner shop. A corner shop is a small shop on or near a street corner. Many are run by Indian or Pakistan families. Most corner shops sell food and newspapers. They are open until late in the evening, as well as on Sundays.

Many people who feel that they don`t have time to go shopping, choose products from catalogues. They just fill out the order form, specify the type, colour, and size, and then mail their order. In just a few days or week, the new products arrive in the mail. You can buy nearly everything from catalogues.
Very similar is buying per internet. Via internet you can find many virtual shops. You choose what you want and order it. You can pay for the goods with your credit card per internet or you will pay by the delivering of the goods. Shopping per internet is more and more popular.
Sometimes, salespeople selling various things come to our door, offering to demonstrate their products. This gives us an opportunity to decide if we want to buy something or not.