Shopping reviews

Welmans is surprisingly well stocked kitchenware store in the Porvoo old town. The small wooden building has been stuffed with quality items, such as Peugeot pepper mills, Le Creuset pans and so forth.

The service is friendly and the staff is knowledgeable about the other shops, cafés and restau... More >

If you have browsed all the boutiques on Santana Row, and still have some money left on your wallet, go over Stevens Creek Boulevard to Westfield mall and spent the rest there.

The mall has two department stores: Macy's and Nordstrom to begin with, and between these giants are over hundred specia... More >

The Western end of the Nanjing Road has a few more Western oriented malls; West Gate is the first west from the Shimen Yilu metro station. The mall itself is quite small, only a few shops per floor, but there is also an Isetan department store, so the selection is good.

The department store has m... More >

Whole Foods Market in SoMa area is different from the most grocery stores found in the downtown San Francisco: it has full selection of fruits, fish and meat, and no sodas. They stock organic foods, too.

For travellers, the fruit selection is especially nice; you can pick a lot of good stuff that... More >

Wrentham Village Premium Outlets is a huge collection of discount and outlet stores for various brands, such as Burberry, Hugo Boss, Banana Republic, Adidas, GAP and Samsonite. There are over 170 stores in the place, so be prepared to spend some time shopping.

The prices are decent, not awesome, ... More >

Xiangyang Market is the place to get brands for less. Sometimes you get even three of more designer labels on the same garment, and as the service is not with the par of designer boutiques, you may already guess that the items sold here are fake.

There are more than a hundred stalls selling bags,... More >

Zara is a mammoth of a fashion house, originally from Spain, nowadays found almost everywhere. They are known to be fast to produce garments; it takes about two weeks from designing the clothes to get them to the stores, and they do rotate their stock every month. So if you find something worth buyi... More >

Zarro stocks classics and other items in design furniture, lightning, kitchen and bathroom accessories. You can find also trendy small items that can be good souvenirs or gifts to people in home.

The shop is an excellent source of brushed metal goodies and anything related to Alessi.

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Zio has two boutique shops in Helsinki; one in Kämp Galleria on Pohjoisesplanadi and another on Fredrikinkatu, among other top notch boutiques.

Zio sells shoes, boots and bags from Muxart, Sara Navarro, Pura Lopez, Camper and Lottusse. Especially the Spanish shoes are extremely nice, varying fro... More >