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I Look at the pictures. 2 Discuss these questions.
I Would you like to shop in a smart store?
? What do you think the article is about?
2 What do you think the advantages and
b What is happening in each picture?
disadvantages of the smart store would be
C Put the pictures in the correct order. . for the stores?
d Read the article and check your order. . for the stafi?
. for the cllstomers?
Gmart t 3 You will hear someone talking about the
advantages and disadvantages of smart stores.
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Compare them to your own ideas.
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fhopping at the suPermarl(et wouid the smart store work? When pen into the console and the
J."., be a reat cnore. Ano you entered the smart supermarket, computer in the console would show
what do shoppers hate most you d collect a small elecLronic pen the total cost To PaY, You'd Pass a
about it? - queues at the from an assistant Then You'd go credit card through a siot on the
checkout. But they wouldn't round the store as you normallY do console Then you'd put your hand
need to queue if supermarkets and take things from the shelves. or finger on a scanner. This would
used the latest idea in shoPPing. You'd run the pen over the bar code idenilry you. so you couldn't use
on the goods beforeyou put them in someone else's credit card. You'd
This idea is [he sm.rrt )Lo"e'. The your trolley, and the pen would teave rhe shop through a secu"ily
L.or, store would lepl.rce record your purchases. At the arch like the ones at arrports. If you
checkout assistants with computer checkout, you wouldn't meet a didn't scan everythinq in your trolley,
technology, and queues at the checkout assistant, rnstead yc'u'd find an alarm woutd ring. tr
checkouts would dtsappear. How a checkout console. You'd put the

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