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Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer directly or by searching among alternative vendors using a shopping search engine, which displays the same product's availability and pricing at ...
An ukay-ukay ( Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky ), or wagwagan ( Tagalog pronunciation: [wɐgˈwaːgɐn] wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where secondhand items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a cheap price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are imported from European and North American countries.
Pasalubong, in general, is a "gift for a relation or friend brought by a traveler returning from a trip", and could also refer to "anything given as a gift to someone on the way home to a certain place." [6] It could also mean "homecoming gift" or any present which signifies appreciation to the services rendered by the recipient.
Sari-sari store. A sari-sari store, anglicized as neighborhood sundry store, [1] is a convenience store found in the Philippines. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry". Such stores occupy an important economic and social location in a Filipino community and are ubiquitous in neighborhoods and along streets.
Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance. [1] Internet fraud is not considered a single, distinctive crime but covers a range of illegal and ...
As a historical colony of the United States, the Philippine English lexicon shares most of its vocabulary from American English, but also has loanwords from native languages and Spanish, as well as some usages, coinages, and slang peculiar to the Philippines. Some Philippine English usages are borrowed from or shared with British English or Commonwealth English, for various reasons. Due to the ...
The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their analysis of José Villa Panganiban's Talahuluganang Pilipino-Ingles (Pilipino-English dictionary), Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) pointed out that 33% of word root entries are of Spanish origin. As the aforementioned analysis didn't reveal the frequency of the usage of these ...
Carinderia (sometimes spelled as Karinderya) is a common type of eatery in the Philippines that serves affordable and locally-inspired dishes. [1] These food establishments, also known as turo-turo (meaning "point-point" in Filipino), [2] play a significant role in Filipino cuisine and provide a convenient and economical dining option for ...