SHOPPING BY PHONE
On the walls of an underground station in central Seoul, South Korea
there are a lot of pictures of food and drinks: bananas, meat, rice,
coffee, even pel food. But these are not advertisements. This is the
world's first virtual' supermarket, called Homeplus.
The supermarket is unusual because you use the special Homeplus
app on your smartphone to go shopping When you want to buy
something, you use this app to scan the barcodes of the products
you want. You put them in your online shopping trolley and then you
pay by phone. You haven't got any heavy bags to carry because the
supermarket delivers everything to your house for you.
South Koreans like shopping online and millions of them have
smartphones, but are they ready for this type of shopping? 'Young
Koreans use their smartphones to do a lot of different tasks overy
day,' says a Homeplus virtual store manager. 'Our customers work
really hard and don't have enough time to go to the supermarket
Our store helps them save time.' So, Is this the future?
4 ***Complete the advertisement for
Homeplus with words from the text.
2 ** Complete the definitions with the words
in bold from the text.
1 Tanke are little jobs we do every day at
work or at home.
2 Sometimes in the middle of a TV programme,
they show
3 An
is a small computer program on
your phone or tablet
4 When you call a pizza company, it normally
the pizzas to your house.
5A
is something you put your food in
at the supermarket.

- the virtual supermarket
We help you save timel
1 Choose the food
or drink
you want
2 Scon the b
3 Fill your
with
food
4 P. for your shopping with your
3** Read the text again. Answer the
questions.
1 Where is the supermarket?
It's In an underground station in Seoul
2 What can you buy at the supermarket?
5 Homeplus
house
everything to you
3 What do you need to buy things here?
What happens after you pay for your shopping?
5 Www What's good about a virtual shop!
this? What's bad about it? Write at least
sentences,
5 Why does the store manager think it's good for
Koreans?​