"Shopping is an activity which is quiet necessary in our lives. Most of the people do the shopping because they have to. They spend part of their day doing some kind of shopping for food or other essential items. Sometimes they buy clothes or some equipment just because they want to have anything new. Some people, especially women and girls, love shopping. They can’t live without it. It’s necessary for them to go through the shop and look what new they have and what is cheaper and what is more expensive. It’s a form of relaxation for them, which costs them a lot of money. Sometimes they buy stupid things just to have them. Some of us have to also go to the shop to buy some presents.

HISTORY
Buying and selling goods has probably been a regular human activity for as long as people have lived together. Trade began the moment
one person had more of one thing and wanted something they had little of. They would exchange their fish for someone else’s grain. This is known as bartering and it is the simplest and earliest form of economic activity.
The Babylonians are believed to have been the first to invent a monetary system. The advantage of money is that it is endlessly transferable – in other words, you can always trade money for goods and services. You don’t have to wait until someone wants to exchange what they have for what you have. Plus money doesn’t go bad like food or wear out like clothes. The only problem is the occasional financial crisis. With the invention of money came the invention of shops. The biggest difference between early shopping and shopping today is that customers used to haggle (smlouvat) with the shopkeeper. In other words, the two people negotiated the price. Haggling is still typical in many parts of the world, from Asia to the Middle East, but in the Western world it is less typical.
Since the nineteenth century most people went to a shop. However, open shopping places still exist today in the form of flea markets, which are a great place to find a bargain or collector’s item.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, shops remained quite specialised. People went to a baker’s for bread, a butcher’s for their meat, the greengrocer’s for vegetables, the fishmonger’s for fish, a tailor if they needed a new suit and a cobbler for shoes. They might visit a carpenter to have furniture made or a blacksmith for something made from iron. By the second half of the twentieth century, the nature of shopping changed again. It became common for people to do their shopping under one roof, going to different sections for the goods they needed, and so the supermarket was born.
TYPES OF SHOPS
Today we have a number of choices where to go shopping. We can go to a big department store, a mall, a smaller local shop, or an outdoor market."

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