Advantages and disadvantages of supermarkets

Supermarkets became for us a normal shop. A while ago they were an uncommonness. Now it is perfectly normal to visit a shop on Sunday or do everyday shopping. For some it is a blessing, but for others they are a serious complication.

First the advantages. Buying in supermarkets saves a lot of time. Today everybody is really busy and saving time is crucial. Another advantage of supermarkets is their multitude of merchendise, you can buy vitually everything; from a screw to a car. In most cases supermarkets employ many workers. So they help to fight the unemployment, they are a chance for the many young people who cannot find a job. When a supermarket is build, the company owners must get a sanction from the city council. This often connected with certain presents from the supermarket chain owner, it can be a "small" donation or redevelopment of an adjacent road system. Those legal bribes are a help to the city.

But the supermarkets bring also a lot of new problems. The first is inhumane treatment of employees, in some supermarkets the regulations are beneath them. Another serious problem is lowering the profits of small shops. The owners lose their source of money and have to fire the employees and lose work themselfs. The number of those people can surpass that of those employed. Buying in supermarkets is risky. Vendors will try to fob something off on you or the price of a product you just bought won't be its real price. Often when you want to buy just one thing you end up with a hundred things you really do not need. A visit to the supermarket is becoming, for some people, the best possible thing to do in their spare time and that is bad. It is surely better to see a play or take a hike.

Supermarkets have their pros and cons. The decision whether to support them is left to you. You have to look from your own point of view. 

sanction - official permission to to sth - zezwolenie
chain - a group of shops, hotels, etc. that are owned by the same person or company - sieć
be beneath sb - not good enough for sb - uwłaczać czyjejś godności
fob sth on sb - to try to give sb something that is not suitable or that is not what he/she wants - wciskać komuś np. tandetny towar