UNIT 7 -
LEKCJA
7
SHOPPING
Cu/turaJ
Notes
Ever since Poland began to move
toward
a
market
economy,
shopping
has
become
alittle
easier
for
Poles,
since most goods are
nowavailable.
Several
new
and
quite
elegant
stores are
growing
Iike the proverbia/ mushrooms. Prices are steep
however -
at
least in comparison
with
the
average Polish sa/ary.
In Po/and,
as
in many European countries,
you
buy
bread
at
the
bakery,
meat
at
the butcher shop (or from
the
farmer
who
comes
to
your
house every coup/e
of
weeks),
fruit
and vegetables
at
a street stand
or
at
the
fresh
produce
market, etc.
Ho
we ver, lines still exist everywhere, a/though
nowadays
they
are
considerably
shorter. You must still
count
on
spending considerable
time
queuing
up
in
each
store, which makes shopping
in
Poland frustrating
and
time-consuming. Po/es must
also shop
for
food
every day, since refrigerators are
tiny
and
freezers a/most non-
existent.
Furthermore,
you
never
know
where
you'l/
find
something
you
are
/ooking
for.
For examp/e,
milk
imported
from
France
might
be
for
sale
at
a
butcher
shop,
while
fresh
country
eggs
might
show
up
sudden(y
at
the t/orist.
It
may
be a passing phenomenon,
but
right
now
one
ot
the
side effects
of
the
budding
market
economy
is
the
tact
that
you
often
don't
know
exact/y
what
you
are
buying. During the first presidential candidates
the
current
joke
went
like this:
MThey
may
have
different
names,
but
they
all
taste
the
same".
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