The small shop

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World Domination

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If the British over, the centuries spread English across the world by colonization, America has spread it even more effectively and quickly by different means. Who in the world has not heard Of Coca Cola, McDonald’s, IBM, General Motors, Microsoft and Boeing? It is clear that American industries have made their own forms of conquest. The slate of the American dollar influences all the money markets of the world. United States foreign policy affects many other countries, both, near and far.

Along with all this economic and political power, there is also unequalled power in all the fields of communication, information and entertainment. No other country has played a greater part in the development of the computer. America leads the world in the design and manufacture of hardware and in the development and production of software. UNESCO figures show that 94 per cent of Internet communications are in English.

Early in the twentieth, century, America established itself as the world leader in the new medium of the cinema. In 1906, the first full-length movie was made there and in the following year film-making began in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. In many countries of the world today, most people’s familiarity with English comes from films, TV and other types of American entertainment.

On 1 January 1999, eleven European Union Countries adopted the new euro currency: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Four European Union Countries did not adopt the euro: Britain, Denmark, Greece, and Sweden. The official abbreviation for the euro is EUR (capital E, capital U and capital R).

There are 7 euro notes in the following denominations: 500euros, 200 euros, 100 euros, 50 euros, 20 euros, 10 euros, 5 euros

There are 8 euro coins in the following denominations: 2 eu­ros, 1 euro, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2 cents, I cent. Bank notes and coins for the euro will not be used until 2002. Until that time, the 11 euro countries will continue to use their existing bank notes and coins.

The symbol for the euro is like a round E with two horizontal parallel lines. The inspiration for this symbol was the Greek letter epsilon (a reference to Greece as the foundation of European civilization). The parallel lines are intended to represent the euro’s stability.

Small shops generally deal in a certain kind of goods and may be called specialized shops. Thus, you go to the fishmonger’s for fish and if you run out of bread, you go to the baker’s. However, more often small shops trade in a variety of foodstuffs, such as flour, butter, eggs, sugar, tinned and frozen foods. The householder can use the small shop when he or she runs short of small items of grocery, etc.

There are many tens of thousands of small Shops in Great Britain and many people have a small shop within walking distance of their home. This makes them very convenient to the shopper. However, the number of small shops in Great Britain has declined in the last twenty years.

The small shop will often be open early in the morning and late at night. The shopkeeper will also allow some of the best customers to buy on credit and pay their bill at the end of the week. Special likes and dislikes of the customers are catered for by the small shop and they will often carry a wide variety of stock to cover individual needs of many customers. The shopkeeper will spend a lot of time and trouble to make sure that regular customers get exactly what they want.

The personal service offered by the small shop is its greatest advantage. However, as the small shop gives good personal service, customers may have to wait whilst the shopkeeper is serving an earlier customer, and this can sometimes be a disadvantage.

Because the small shopkeeper buys his goods in small quantities, he does not have the price advantages offered by bulk purchase. The small shopkeeper may buy, say, 10 or 20 tins of food and has to pay a much higher price per tin to the wholesaler than the owner of a larger shop, who would buy the tins of food by the hundred or even by the thousand. For a big order like this the price per tin would, of course, be much less. The supermarket can therefore offer its goods at a much lower price than the small shop because it buys in bulk.

Because the small shop is small, it cannot carry a large stock and it may be difficult to see the stock because of poor display.

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