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I'm welcome back to britain under the microscope advanced

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So today we're gona be carrying on our episode about shopping in this advanced episode um there's a lot more that we can talk about

But so last time we talked about some of the basics and some of the expressions right

And we mentioned this whole idea about the high street

Yeah

Can you just remind us

What is the definition of the high street

Because that is a very engle

The idea

The high ststreet is the central vote through any town

So if you think about most towns will build on the edge of major roads

The high street is that vote

So every time can have a high street

Absolutely so every time will have a high street

And that traditionally is been

Where the shops have been located

That's why now there's the idea of high street fashion

High street names well every past street decades so in the phigh street been changing in the uk

Well to be honest

It's not looking good for high streets in the uk

If you read the media

If you read the news

There's lots about the death of the high street

It's the death of high street sounds really grim

Well

It is that's

Because many shops are going out of business

So for example in past few years

Wewe've had shops like bhs

Oh

So was going out business business hh times times you pass some some these shops and one there were so shops

And the next day you see bankdation

Yeah

That means they're going bankrupt

That going belly up

Yeah

So if you look at ba jason in waris an example

Those are household names um they have been on the high street for over seventy years

Wow

But they'just gone into liquidation and gone bankrupt

But why is that though well there's also a different reasons

Both of people say say the effects of the recession

So the two thousand and eight credit crunch

And also also over liance on sales events

I remember i was growing up as shops of only used to have sales in the summer

And also about ristmas time and the box in day sale

Yeah

That's a usually cell season

And now there they're having sales all the time

All the time

And you can see this from the high streets

As well you mentioned about the shops

That the shops

Ps

Just no longer there and many of them will be in

Turned into cafe

Restaurant

Coffee shops or restaurants

So the high street is becoming more of social area rather than a shopping area

What about the corner shops

Like the little shops in the uk

Well

The corner shops used to be very very common

They were mostly run by immigrant families who came over in the nineteen

Ninety eighties

Ninenineteen eighties

Because they were win to work such long hours

The corner shops were design for those times

We just need some milk or bread

Yeah

But you need a new they open

Till late they open to late

They're pretty much everywhere

Yeah

They're becoming less common is it

Because they're more expensive

Pretty much

Yeah

They're more expensive

Thenot not much much less selection

They don't that much sesection

And nowadays if you go es to the uk

You ll see ts ts about bigger supermarkets like tescoo sanes freeze

They all have their own express version

Oh Yes

I remember there was a tesco local or tesco metro quite close to us

Yeah

Very very close to train stations

And so that people just pick sigying up on the way back from work

Because nowadays people don't have the time to go to the big hypermarket

The really big supermarket that you have to drive to

Yeah

So what other possible casses are there for

Or the death

Or the the clcline

The

The high street

I would think it's like transport as well

How people travel transport is an issue

Um vents the se sing cocost of land in the uk

Well well

Of course i'm also rising consume expectations before people were quite happy with much simply products

But now they demand a lot more varieties have a lower cost

Especially the younger generation

Oh Yeah

I remember going to all these conventional department stores in the uk

You mostly see a lot older people

Oh Yeah

Not so many young people

No

And of course

Another big influence is the internet and the technology

The growth of the internet

You know that in china we have alibaba

Have taobaoo we have jinddg

And all that and you personally shops on these things

Yeah

What about the online shopping in the uk is it as popular in the uk as in china

It is popular

But i wouldn't say it as developed as it is in china

You can buy food from supermarkets online

And that's becoming more common

But mostly people buy things online like books or electronics and things

Like that you haven't moved to buying grocery online

Where it heading in that direction

We are going towards that direction

But still i think people generally like to get the food themselves is it because that generally british people are a little bit more reserved

When it comes to the new technologies partly yes

But it head in the uuk

We do like buy things online

And it's only now that we started to feel more comfortable with it

Because as the issues of trust as well

Security

Security credit cards

No personal information

Yeah

So credit carard fraud as well as a big concern in the uk

Yeah

Right one thing that people might notice if they are going to the uk from china

They would notice that mobile payment scanning of aqr code is much less common in the uk

Yeah

At least

I usually you just pay with credit cards

I don't use mobile payment in uk

That much

No

Not nearly as much as what

What i will do in china

Oh No

In china

Nowadays you can just go down without any cash

You can go down with your mobile phone

Yeah

And it's a little bit similar to uk

But what we do is we still use credit cards and debit cards a lot more

So for example

We would use chip and pin

Chip and pin that's just you put in the card

And then you have to key in the pass code yeah

Like you would do in a city market

Yeah

And not even that a lot the time

Now if it's something under twenty pounds last my my ligion nuk was twenty pounds

Then you can just touch your credit cardor debit cards onto the machine

And it ultimately ally takes it off

Oh

So below certain amount

Yeah

You don't even have to keen anything

Yeah

That's convenient

And now most of the shops especially the bigger ones they have their own websites and people would buy through these websites

Well Yeah

So the shops are still successful

The moment are the ones that have embraced online shopping

Because there's one thing that you notice especially with clothes in the uk

There's quite popular is that you buy clothe online

Because you've going picked them up in store

So you can try the mom before you take them out the shop

So for example

If they don't fit

Then you can just return into the stall stiight away

So if example

When i buy closed in the uk

That's germany

What i would do

Also you would order online you go to the shop

Yes

And just pick it up

And try it on

If it doesn't fit you doesn't suit

You

You just return straight away

Yeah

So you don't have to mell it back

Yethat's that's something you can do

Yeah

Another big topic that has influence on probably the high street is globalization

So the impact of globalization and mass tourism

Oh

Definitely especially you in places like london

Knoxsud street and places where they do have a loss of tourists

Especially

Chinese tourists the've spend a lot of money in the uk

Yeah

So naturally a lot of businesses are trying to caatter to chinese travelers

Especially the higher stostolike like have ds for the very expensive one at least and also of course

Because people travel to other countries

English people to travel to other countries

And people from other countries so travel to the uk

So people sort of start to expect new and different things like a different variety of food

Oh Yeah

One thing i've noticed in the uk

Is if you go to your mid range or lower and of supermarkets

You don't really see that much world food

Yeah

But if you go to way it rols ls go go mms food food

Then Then

Re's re's lot lot world food

Oh

Yeit's very very popular

I member growing up those so much food that you never even heard of

For example sushi and things like that was unheard of

But nowadays you can find them in every supermarket

Yeah Yeah

It's not very good

But yeah

Good good social london still ccost a lot

No Yeah

But you know different seasoning

Different ine ine from over the world

World

Ah so that's is a little bit of information about shopping in the uk

So you

You been to the uk

Please let us know in the comment section

And maybe you can recommend us a few shops that you like

So until next time i see you

Next time bye