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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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Sainsbury’s supermarkets share with Tesco the leading position in food and drink sales in Britain. Both have about 12% of the market, but they have very different images. Sainsbury’s has a middle-class image and suggests good food and wine. Most of the supermarkets and Homebase stores, which sell Do-It-Your-self goods, are in the richest part of the country, the South-East and the Midlands. There are no Sainsbury’s stores in Scotland, Wales or large areas of the North. In the mid-1970-s Sainsbury’s started to built very big supermarkets, ‘hypermarkets’, on the edge of towns. This reflects social change, where more affluent people have cars and only want to shop once a week. Like the introduction of the first self-service store in 1950, the idea is American. The architecture of the hypermarkets is interesting. They often look like small communities of houses set around a church tower, something like an old English village. Inside is a single space which contains all the old type of shops under one roof- the butcher, baker, grocer, fishmonger – in an impersonal, modern setting. The first Sainsbury’s was a diary which opened in Drury Lane, London in 1869. The Sainsbury family still has the controlling interest in the company today.
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Sainsbury’s has a middle-class image and _______.

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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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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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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 _______.