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Harrods is a huge department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London. The store has over 330 departments making it the hugest department store in Europe. The Harrods motto is “All Things for All People, Everywhere”. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Halls, are world famous.
Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25. He had a grocery shop with a special interest in tea. In 1849, Harrod took over a small shop and began in a single room. He employed two assistants and a messenger boy. His son built the business into a bigger one selling medicines, perfumes, stationery, fruit and vegetables. Harrods rapidly expanded, and employed one hundred people by 1880. In 1898 Harrods became England’s first department store with a “moving staircase” (escalator). The device was a leather conveyor unit with a mahogany and silver balustrade.
Nowadays the shop offers a wide range of products and services. Products, which the shop offers, include clothing for women, men, children and infants, electronics, jewellery, sporting gear, home appliances, furniture, and much more. Shop services include 32 restaurants, a watch repair service; a tailor; a pharmacy; a beauty spa and salon; a barbers shop; Harrods Financial Services; Harrods Bank; Ella Jade Bathroom Planning and Design Service; private events planning and catering and food delivery. From 1989 Harrods has had a strict and accepted dress code, where people are refused to enter the store if they are wearing high-cut, Bermuda or beach shorts, swimwear, cycling shorts, sandals, or if they have bare feet.
Harrods has been criticized for selling real animal fur with regular protests organised outside Harrods. Nowadays Harrods is the only department store in Britain that has continued to sell fur. Harrods was also sharply criticised in 2004 by the Hindu community for marketing a line of feminine underwear with the images of Indian goddesses.
Due to its status Harrods has been connected with several crimes over the years, including the 2012 theft of a £24,000 designer dress.
Harrods also has several memorials. One is located by the escalator and is entitled “Innocent Victims”, a bronze statue of the two children dancing on a beach beneath the wings of an albatross. The figures symbolize life, and a bird is the symbol of the “Holy Spirit”. After the death of Michael Jackson, the owner of the shop said that they had already been discussing plans to build a memorial statue. The statue was made in April 2011 but removed in September 2013 on the orders of the new owner.
1) Harrods is the world’s biggest department.
1. True
2. False
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2) Harrods first shop was a teashop.
1. True
2. False
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3) At the end of the 19th century Harrods was very famous.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated
4) You can repair your watch, make clothes and cut your hair at Harrods.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated
5) People are allowed to go into the shop if they wear proper clothes.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated
6) You can buy real fur in many shops in England.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated
7) People steal things from Harrods every year.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated
8) There is a monument to Michael Jackson in Harrods.
1. True
2. False
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1) – False
2) – False
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4) – True
5) – True
6) – False
7) – Not Stated
8) – False
