Shopping conversation questions

Shopping

• What are your feelings about shopping? Is it a pleasure or a torture?
• Do you think that men and women have different feelings about shopping?
• Do you have different feelings about shopping for clothes, shoes, electronic gadgets and food?
• If you are buying an expensive item, do you compare prices at several shops and the internet?
• Some shops sell second-hand goods, have you ever used them?
• Have you ever bought something and then never really used it? What was it and why didn’t you use it?
• When you shop is it customary to haggle in your country? Are you any good at haggling?
• Do you think people can become addicted to shopping?
• Are you more likely to use large retail chains of shops or independent shops/sole traders? What are the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of both styles of retailer?

Internet shopping

• Do you ever shop on the internet? What is your opinion of this way of shopping?
• Have you ever used Amazon? If so, describe the process of buying on eBay.
• What is your opinion of the security of buying things on the internet?
• Consider the following. How likely would you be to buy them on the internet. Give a score of 5 for highly likely and a score of 0 for highly unlikely. Explain why you would, or would not, buy these items on the net.
  • A computer program.
  • Canned food.
  • Fresh fruit and vegetables.
  • Tickets to the cinema.
  • Clothes.
  • Small technology like an mp3 player or an ipod.
  • Large technology like a computer or a TV.
  • Airline tickets.
  • Hotel reservations.
  • A complete package holiday.
  • A CD or books.
  • Purchasing downloaded music.

See also

• Christmas conversation questions
• Fashion conversation questions
• Gender conversation questions
• Luxury goods conversation questions
• Money conversation questions