Магазины и отделы

Department store is a large shop with many departments for different kinds of goods.
A department store, for example, is composed of departments: clothes, shoes, sports goods, toys, china and glass, electric appliances, cosmetics, cameras, records, etc.
You can buy everything you like there.

The most famous department store in Russia are GUM and TsUM in Moscow. Other popular stores are Mega (shopping malls), Stockmann, and Marks & Spencer and others.

GUM (meaning "main department store") is a large store in Kitai-gorod of Moscow, facing Red Square. It is actually a shopping mall. Prior to the 1920s the place was known as the Upper Trading Rows (Russian: Верхние торговые ряды).

In a supermarket we can also buy many different things at once: sausages, fish, sugar, macaroni, flour, tea. In a supermarket the buyer goes with a basket and puts into a basket that he wants to buy.
The concept of a self-service grocery store was developed by American entrepreneur Clarence Saunders. His first store opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916.

In the women's clothing department you can find dresses, costumes, blouses, skirts, coats, beautiful underwear and many other things.

In the men's clothing department you can choose shirts, trousers, overcoats, etc.

Also it is possible to buy sweaters, cardigans, woolen jackets.

Another shop we go to is the greengrocery which is stocked by cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, green peas and apples, oranges.