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- <title>2. В магазине</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="up" href="ch07.html" title="Chapter 7. Lesson 7"><link rel="prev" href="ch07s01.html" title="1. Мы идём в магазин!"><link rel="next" href="ch07s03.html" title="3. Setting the scene"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2. <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В магазине</em></span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07s01.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 7. Lesson 7</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch07s03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e17798"></a>2. <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В магазине</em></span></h2></div></div></div><p>For the most part, you'll be shopping in Moscow and St. Petersburg in stores which operate the same way they do in the US. However, there may be times when you'll stop in at a Russian store which still uses an older, and at times frustrating, multi-step system of purchasing and payment:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p>Decide what it is you wish to purchase. Ask the price.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The salesperson will give you а <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">чек</em></span></strong></span> and ask you to pay at the <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">касса</em></span></strong></span>. While you are doing that, he/she will be wrapping up your purchase.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>After paying, you will return to the salesperson with either a receipt showing payment, or your original <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">чек</em></span></strong></span> stamped, which you'll hand over in exchange for your purchase.</p></li></ol></div><p>Russian law now stipulates that there is one currency for the entire country and that is the <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">рубль</em></span></strong></span> which is divided into 100 <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">копейка</em></span></strong></span>. Because of inflation however, <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">копейки</em></span></strong></span> have disappeared. In spite of this law, you will still be able to make purchases in many stores (especially those which are foreign-owned) using <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">СКВ свободно конвертируемая валюта</em></span></strong></span> freely convertible currency (dollars, marks, francs and pounds sterling). Major credit cards are readily accepted in many locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, more rarely in other large cities, and almost never in the smaller ones.</p><p>Think big when you think of prices in Russia! When writing these large numbers, Russians use а <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">точка</em></span></strong></span> period to indicate the decimal point rather than а <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">запятая</em></span></strong></span> comma.</p><p>For example:</p><p>12.000 руб.= 12,000 rubles</p><p>7,5 руб. = 7.50 rubles (7 rubles and 50 kopecs)</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07s01.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch07.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch07s03.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">1. <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Мы идём в магазин!</em></span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 3. Setting the scene</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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