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SHOPPING IN BOSTON

Shopping in Boston has evolved furnishings or ethnic treasures, to the
dramatically in recent years. Long known varied art and crafts galleries, Boston caters
as an excellent center for antiques, books, to every shopping need. Whether you are
and quality clothing, the city’s shopping looking for the latest fashion accessory,
options now cover a much broader an unusual antique, or a special souvenir,
spectrum, influenced both by its booming choices abound to accommodate every
economy and its large, international sense of style and budget. Boston is no
student popula tion. From the fashionable longer simply traditional, and now holds
boutiques of Newbury Street, to the many its own in providing a vibrant, eclectic
stores selling cosmopolitan home and world-class shopping experience.

Copley Place, with its elegant
restaurants, and more than 75
shops over two levels, is based
around a dazzling 60­ft (18­m)
atrium and waterfall. Across
a pedestrian overpass, Shops
at Prudential Center encom­
passes Saks Fifth Avenue
department store, a food court,
and many smaller specialty
shops. The Heritage on the
Garden, a collection of upscale
boutiques and luxury retailers,
looks out over Boston’s Public
Garden, and features the
boutiques of top European
Large glass atrium of the busy Prudential Center shopping mall designers, fine jewelers, and
stores selling other luxury
Sales throughout the week. Weekday goods. Outside the center of
There are two major sale seasons mornings are the best times to town, across the Charles River,
in Boston: July, when summer shop. Saturdays, lunch hours, CambridgeSide Galleria has
clothes go on sale to make room and evenings can be very busy. over 100 shops and a pond­side
for fall fashions, and January, food court. For last­minute
when any winter clothing and Shopping Malls purchases, Boston America, at
merchandise is cleared after the Logan Airport (Terminal B), has
holidays. Most stores also have Shopping malls – clusters of shops, restaurants, banking, and
a sale section or clearance rack shops, restaurants, and food Internet access.
throughout the year. courts all within one large and
open complex – have become
top destinations for shopping, Department Stores
Payment and Taxes offering variety, dining, and There are several major
Major credit cards and traveler’s entertainment. With long winters department stores in Boston
checks with identification are and a fair share of bad weather, offering a large and varied
accepted at most stores. There New Englanders flock to malls selection of clothing, acces­
is a tax of 6.25 per cent on all to shop, eat, and, in the case of sories, cosmetics, housewares,
purchases except groceries and teenagers, simply hang out. and gifts. Some also have
clothing, although any item of restaurants and
clothing over $175 will be taxed. beauty salons, and
provide a variety
of personal shop­
Opening Hours ping services. At
Most stores open at 10am and Downtown Crossing
close at 6pm from Monday to (see p84), a bustling
Saturday, and from noon to 5 or shopping district
6pm on Sunday. Many stores between Boston
stay open later on Thursday Common and the
nights, and most department Financial District, the
stores stay open until 7:30 or 8pm Farm produce on display on Charles Street primary department

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