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Harrods is a tourist attraction in London like Buckingham Palace or the Tower of London. It is also a department store. 40% of Harrods’ business is to foreign customers and there is a total of 50,000 customers a day. It all started as a grocer’s shop in 1849, owned by Harry Charles Harrod. The area where Harrods is, Knightsbridge, became fashionable and wealthy after the 1851 Great Exhibition was held in nearby Hyde Park. Harrods has always sold luxury to the rich. In the first 50 years to 1901 Harrods grew larger, and by 1905 it had become the store we see today, employing 4,000 people. Harrods has about 230 departments, among them 16 Food Halls and 34 for fashion. The store runs a library, has a bank, arranges funerals, has a kennel for customers’ dogs, and its own water supply and electricity generators. Harrods covers 1.8 hectares and seems like a potential independent state in London, a Vatican of commerce.
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Harrods has always sold luxury _______.

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Selfridges is a big department store in Oxford Street, London which stretches along the street for 154 metres. Outside it looks like a palace; inside it seems like a small town. The store was opened in 1909 by Harry Gordon Selfridge, an American who had worked in department stores in his home country. Today Selfridges has a staff of 4,000, a car park and a 309 room hotel. A new department, Miss Selfridge, was opened in 1965 to sell fashions to young women. Attempts to open other branches of Selfridges itself have not been successful. The sore has always been famous for its publicity. At Christmas Selfridges’ windows turned into scenes from fairy tales with moving puppets and scenery are one of the sights of London and attract thousands of visitors.
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The sore has always been famous _______.

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Next is a chain of popular fashion clothes shops for men and women which was successful in the 1980s. In 1981, a small group of clothes shops was taken over by George and Liz Davies, a married couple and named Next. They sold clothes in co-ordinated groups to make choice easy, and became famous for their suits, which were worn by the new businessmen and women. In 1985, Next started selling furniture and opened jewellery shops. It started catalogue shopping in 1988. In contrast to others on the market the catalogue looked like a well-designed magazine and the shops were created by a fashionable interior-design practice, Conran Associates. In December 1988, the Davies were sacked, fashions started to change and people stopped spending large amounts of money on clothes as inflation and interest rates rose. The new management closed many shops. Next provides a cheap education in style and fashion that had not been available to the majority of people before.
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They sold clothes in co-ordinated groups to make choice easy, _______.

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V.H. Smith is a national chain of shops which sells newspapers and magazines. It also sells books, videos, CDs, stationery, pens and office equipment. Smith’s has a mass-market image of bookselling and in 1989 they bought Waterstones chain of bookshops which sells quality books in well-designed surroundings, W. H. Smith was William Henry Smith, born in 1792, who inherited a newspaper delivery business from his father. The family received the title of Viscount Hambelden in 1891.
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V.H. Smith is a national chain of shops which sells _______.

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Marks and Spencer is a chain of department stores which sells men’s and women’s clothing, home furnishing, plants and food. The company was started in 1884 by a Russian refugee, Michael Marks, who sold goods such as pins, cotton, and cloth from a box as he walked from village to village. Tom Spencer, an accountant, joined him in 1894 and six years later they had 34 ‘penny bazaars’, market stalls where everything sold for a penny. Today there are nearly 1,000 Marks and Spencer shops both in Britain and worldwide, the majority of them in Canada and in the USA. Marks and Spencer sells 5% of Britain’s food and 16% of its clothing. This gives the company great buying power and all its goods are produced by outside manufactures and then sold in the stores under the brand name St Michael, which was introduced in 1928. Marks and Spencer clothing is traditional in design and good value for money. Its food is expensive, of high quality and great choice. The stores’ hygienic and slightly oppressive atmosphere, mixed with hard business practice and great wealth make Marks and Spencer seem like a respectable middle-aged couple leading an obedient community.
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Marks and Spencer is _______.

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The Body Shop sells perfumes, soap, shampoo and skin-care products for men and women. There are 130 shops in the UK and 300 worldwide. The Body Shop advertises itself through its philosophy, which is concern about pollution, the environment and green issues. None of the products are tested on animals, the ingredients are natural as much as possible, and each shop has a refill section, so that customers can re-use their bottles. However, all the bottles are plastic and the Body Shop must have made many millions of them since the first shop opened in Brighton in 1976. This will not help pollution. The shops sell good, cheap products in attractive surroundings. The company has shown good business sense in two ways. Apart from 23 company-owned shops in Britain, the rest are owned on a franchise: the name is bought by the manager of the shop who runs the shop with company advice. Secondly, all the shops have a strong, simple design. They are dark green, have wide open doors and a feeling of space and colour. They all carry the distinctive yellow and green Body Shop logo.
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The Body Shop advertises itself _______.