A corner shop or a convenience shop is a British tradition. It is a small (6) shop. We can find a corner shop at the end of a local street in many neighbourhoods in towns and cities across the UK. The corner shop sells all kinds of household goods and simple food and drinks like snacks, groceries, coffee, soft drinks. It (7) sells newspapers, magazines, and cigarettes.

Convenience stores are originally from America. They are like the British corner shops. The only (8) is that convenience stores are often open 24 hours. Probably the most well-known convenience store is 7-Eleven. You can find a convenience store at any residential (9), a filling station, a railway station, or alongside a busy road.

Today, there are convenience stores all over the world. Each country has its own (10) of convenience stores as well as the global brand 7-Eleven.

Both corner shops and convenience stores (11) things at higher prices than the supermarket, but they are much more convenient.