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In the model life when people are always busy with their works, schools, lifestyles and other things which cannot be named exactly, the handiness is more necessary. For that reason, convenient stores and supermarkets are increasingly appearing in almost big cities and gradually replacing traditional markets. However, both market and supermarket has its own features.

First of all, on a beautiful day when you want to go out and talk with somebody, you can go to any markets where are always crowded of people. You can talk with the sellers, ask them about the goods, the prices of goods or just ask them how they are and talk about the weather like of the day. If you have good relations with the sellers, you can also ask them to discount for the goods or be promoted new products by themselves. They may give you some good advices and necessary information for what you want to know, or there are simply daily conversations between people. Market is a place for people’s communication. All gossips often begin at a market, where always has talkative sellers with their noisy voices. But sometimes you will be disturbed by their invitations with insistence and asked to buy something from their goods, sometimes you will be angry if you just ask without buying anything, and sometimes you will be ignored if their corner is full of customers. Moreover, goods and trades in the markets depend on lot of things such as the weather, sale time or even sellers’ moods. Some markets are closed in rainy days or on located holidays. Besides, all markets are started early and ended early too, so that if you want to buy good products or vegetable, meat and other fresh food you have to go as soon as possible. And one of the most important things if you want to buy good products with a real bargain at any market is seeing the sellers’ faces and trying to understand aspect of the situation. Their moods will decide the prices sometimes.

In contrast, in a supermarket, you can enjoy your free time for shopping and relax yourself in smooth melodies without any disturbance from anyone. It is your world. You can even go around, see the goods and buy nothing. Nobody can complain you anything. In hot summer days or cold winter days, big supermarkets are places for walking or jogging. Nowadays, most supermarkets are opened until late and some of them are opened all days without any regular holiday. So, they are becoming more and more convenient for people who don’t have daytime for shopping. And if you are not good at bidding for the prices, supermarkets are your best choice. Beside the efficacies, expiration dates and explanations for using, every good has its price on the package. You should read it carefully and decide to buy or not by yourself. The staffs in supermarket rarely give you any comment about their goods.

At last, although traditional markets and supermarkets have their differences from each other, but both of them are really necessary for people’s life. There are many things which are only found at markets such as located traditional goods or heirloom ones, and of course in the other side, there are a lot of things such as some newest modern technology in goods which are easily found in any supermarket instead of markets. However, markets and supermarkets cannot be separated. Depending on the changes and the developments of the world and our society, the number of markets and supermarket and the equality between them may change, but they always exist together. It will be very fun and interesting if you change your shopping styles sometimes.