Emeryville shopping spree

After working hard for two days, I got a couple of hours of own time and headed to check the shopping centers in Emeryville. For a city with only 7,000 inhabitants, Emeryville has abundance of shops. There are several bigger shopping areas quite near each other.

The best is Bay Street, an upper middle class shopping area featuring GAP, Banana Republic, Barnes & Noble and other similar type of stores. The area is nice and it resembles very much Valencia Row in San Jose, except that the shops are not so exclusive and expensive. There is a few restaurants and a cinema there, too. I visited several clothing stores, but didn’t find anything worth buying. Either I have enough clothes or I’m too tired to concentrate on shopping.

Then I popped into Ikea, just next to Bay Street area. It was a weird flashback from Finnish Ikea stores, as there was not much difference. Almost all furniture is available in Finland and vice versa. There were a limited number of items that I didn’t recognise, but maybe they are released in Finland in the near future. I considered eating Swedish meatballs, but I wasn’t that hungry and decided to have a frozen yogurt (soft ice) instead.

After Ikea, I walked to another shopping area, Powell Street Plaza. The shops here were more oriented towards discounts, so nothing to see for me. I tried to buy Pepsi from the grocery store, but failed. The store sold only organic or semi-organic stuff.

There is a couple other shopping areas, but one of them don’t have any brands that I would know and the other one is too far away. I decided to walk to hotel and scribble these notes before going to bed.