Shopping Experience in the States

　　I love shopping， even if it is just window-shopping1. Shopping in the States is always a pleasant experience. There are different types of shops that operate to cater to2 your different needs. To buy groceries， you can go to the convenience store， the supermarket or the mass merchandiser3 （such as Wal-Mart）。 To buy some clothes and big-ticket4 items， you can go to the mall or factory outlets5. I go to two places most often， the supermarket and the mall.

　　In almost every city or large town， you can find several big-chain supermarkets. They have more than a dozen checkouts6 and are one-stop shops7 since you can buy almost everything there： food， cosmetics8， clothes， medicine， etc. You name it. With the development of technology， some of these supermarkets have installed the automatic checkout lanes for customers. I was so thrilled9 the first time I used the automatic checkout lane. Most packaged goods have barcodes10 and you just scan them on the scanning machine when you check out. Some items， such as produce11 （vegetables and fruit）， do not have barcodes on them. You need to input their label numbers， which can be found on the list glued to the scanning machine. These automatic checkout lanes help the stores reduce their labor cost and increase their efficiency.

　　Every grocery store has promotions12 on different kinds of products every week. Usually you can find a store weekly newspaper with featured promotions for that particular week. I am a bargain13 hunter14， forward-buying a lot of daily products if I feel I need them in the future. Once， I saw a featured promotion on Panteen 2-in-1 shampoo plus conditioner15. Although I did not need it at that time， I felt it was a great deal. So I decided to buy 2 bottles. However， I could not find any such Panteen on the shelf. I went to a sales clerk and asked if he could find any for me. He told me that the store was out of the stock and it would not have any in until the next week. The unfortunate thing was that by then the promotion would be over. However， the clerk told me that I could go to the customer service counter and I would be given a rain

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