In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, it's a place where you would buy fruit and vegetables. The shops is more of an area rather than one specific store. In Philadelphia their downtown is called Center City. So if something happened in the middle of Philadelphia, that's like a thing happened in Center City, Philadelphia 100%. Whereas in the UK, it's like, oh, I'm going to go into the city center this afternoon. Which is... I'm goingto go shopping in the city center. Or the town center. Next quiz: Have me pronounce English country towns in England pronounce their names.