1. When was the last time you went to a supermarket? Which supermarket chain was it? Do you often use that chain? Why?
2. Approximately how much did you spend? What did you buy? Was it a good experience? Why?
3. How often do you have to go to the supermarket? Why?
4. There are many ways to make your money go further when you go supermarket shopping. How do you keep your food costs down?
5. Have you ever been to a supermarket in a foreign country? If yes, when? Where? What did you find was different? If no, how do you imagine supermarkets in other countries are different from the supermarkets in Japan?
6. Have you ever done your food shopping online? If so, how was it? In the 1990s and early 2000s, many pundits predicted the demise of supermarket shopping as supermarkets went online. In many countries stores like bookstores and record stores have been decimated but supermarkets are as busy as ever. Why do you think it is that supermarkets have not gone online?

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