The phrase "kilo shop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a store that sells second-hand clothing or items by weight, typically in kilograms.
Example: "I found some amazing vintage clothes at the kilo shop downtown."
Alternatives: "weight-based thrift store" or "bulk clothing store."
There is also a concept store called Kilo-Shop where you can buy clothes by the weigh.
The family all work as scavengers, selling plastic waste by the kilo to junk shops.
Compare what you receive for a kilo of pork with what the shops ask for it...
Though currently out of season, I managed to pick up a four kilo monster in Chinatown for $20. Shopping for durian is hit and miss in Australia – there are too many subpar defrosted specimens floating about.
Throughout the morning workers unload packs of Venezuelan corn flour, rice, soap, oil, powdered milk, for sale to shops in the city centre.A kilo of corn flour, which is very popular for making arepa corn cakes, costs just 14 bolívares (about 20 cents) in Venezuelan shops.
As of last Saturday, Tobias Skiba, who runs an Edeka supermarket branch in the town of Neukirchen-Vluyn, near Dusseldorf, doesn't just carry the usual jars of Nutella in his shop, but also gigantic buckets of three kilos each.
'If you find them in a shop and they cost less than 12 euros a kilo, they are probably not worth having,' Dulce advises, standing over a pan of stew in the restaurant's kitchen.
She returned a minute later with a plastic shopping bag containing a large ziplock filled with half a kilo of frozen product.
The main road through the slum settlement is lined with 24-hour 'junk shops' that buy plastic, metal, paper and glass by the kilo, for sale to massive recycling plants in southern China.
A kilo of sugar, for instance, which previously cost 6.3 bolívares at a subsidised government shop, will now set you back 18 bolívares.
