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    Women generally spend more time shopping than men. Younger men are more fashion conscious than older generations and willing to shop themselves, but women still take on the majority of shopping tasks like buying groceries and clothes for family members. Shopping is also a social activity often done with friends for women. People's preferences on domestic versus imported products depends on the individual, but factors like supporting local economies or budget constraints can influence their choices. Some purchases of unneeded items are made to keep up with trends and friends, due to larger disposable incomes, or result from persuasive advertising and impulse buys online.

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    Women generally spend more time shopping than men. Younger men are more fashion conscious than older generations and willing to shop themselves, but women still take on the majority of shopping tasks like buying groceries and clothes for family members. Shopping is also a social activity often done with friends for women. People's preferences on domestic versus imported products depends on the individual, but factors like supporting local economies or budget constraints can influence their choices. Some purchases of unneeded items are made to keep up with trends and friends, due to larger disposable incomes, or result from persuasive advertising and impulse buys online.

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    Women generally spend more time shopping than men. Younger men are more fashion conscious than older generations and willing to shop themselves, but women still take on the majority of shopping tasks like buying groceries and clothes for family members. Shopping is also a social activity often done with friends for women. People's preferences on domestic versus imported products depends on the individual, but factors like supporting local economies or budget constraints can influence their choices. Some purchases of unneeded items are made to keep up with trends and friends, due to larger disposable incomes, or result from persuasive advertising and impulse buys online.

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    1) 

    Do you agree or disagree that women spend more time shopping than men?

    I would definitely say that women go shopping more often than men and also spend longer
    looking for what they want. For a start, it is usually women who buy the groceries each week
    and also clothes for the children if they have a family. Many women I know purchase most of
    their husband’s clothes as well because their men hate shopping.

    I think this is less the case with younger men as they are more fashion conscious and happy
    to hit the shops themselves. Brand named clothes are a status symbol with the younger
    generation as they like to dress to impress. Men more readily pay for expensive items, especially
    the latest electronic gadgets, and aren’t too bothered about discounts.

    For women, shopping is often a social activity done with friends. It’s common to go window
    shopping and my sister’s idea of a fun morning is browsing the second-hand shops in town.
    You never see men doing either of these things.

    2) Do people generally prefer to buy products from their own or from other countries?

    I think it varies very much from person to person. On the one hand, there’s an increasing number
    of people who choose to buy their meat and vegetables from farm shops rather
    than supermarkets. This is partly to support the local economy but also because they are
    concerned that transporting produce around the world is contributing to global warming.

    Unfortunately, supermarket products are often cheaper despite having travelled many miles to


    the shops. For example, I live in the countryside and can see sheep out of my window and yet
    it’s cheaper to buy lamb from New Zealand, 11,000 miles away, than it is to purchase local
    lamb.

    So, on the other hand, you have people on a low budget who are forced
    to buy cheaper supermarket imports even if they don’t want to.

    With most goods other than food, there’s often little choice but to buy foreign imports as most
    things in the shops come from abroad.

    3) Why do you think some people purchase things that they do not need?

    In my opinion, unnecessary purchases are made for several reasons. Firstly, many people,


    especially the younger generation, like to have the latest gadgets and fashions so they quickly
    discard old stuff. We have become a real throwaway society. Also, they want to have the same
    products as their friends whether they need them or not.

    Secondly, these days we tend to have more spare cash to buy luxuries that our parents would not
    have been able to afford at our age.

    Finally, I think that aggressive advertising convinces people that they need things that they don’t
    and, of course, the internet encourages impulse buying as shopping online is so quick and
    easy. 

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