shopping: usa
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Once a last-minute scramble for souvenir t-shirts and cheap electronics at the end of a trip, shopping is now a USA holiday pre-requisite that requires knowledge and planning, says Laura Gelder
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t is little wonder that New York remains the favourite shopping destination for Brits. After all, it’s a city where the big stores are tourist destinations in their own right – just look at Bloomingdale’s, with its famous brown carrier bags or Macy’s Christmas Grotto. Fashionistas will fi nd designer heaven in Madison
Avenue and the Meatpacking district. On glamorous Fifth Avenue there are department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman, with famous jewellers Tiffany & Co. and Van Cleef & Arpels also glittering temptingly. Fifth Avenue isn’t all about high-end though and high street fans will fi nd names like Niketown, Abercrombie & Fitch and Anthropologie. Bargain hunters will enjoy battling the crowds
at Century 21, which has stores across NYC. And for vintage fi nds, recommend Greenwich Village or Brooklyn Flea, a weekend vintage market. Virgin Holidays’ USA Product Development
Executive, Alice Nevins-Ramessur, suggests an alternative to the Big Apple: “Boston is where clued-up shopaholics are now heading,” she says. “At just 6.25% the city’s sales tax is lower than most others and there’s none at all to pay on
clothes and footwear under $175. Recommend Newby Street for the best boutiques.” Philadelphia is just over an hour from New
York (via Amtrak) and offers tax-free shopping at the east coast’s largest mall – the King of Prussia. This monster out-of-towner boasts seven department stores and more than 400
“For shopping I’d recommend Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Louisiana because they are tax free. Plus, Bloomington’s Mall of America is huge and
an attraction in its own right!” PHILIPPA WESTWOOD, MARKETING MANAGER, AMERICA AS YOU LIKE IT
shops and restaurants. Back in the city, there is a Macy’s, 60 high street shops at Liberty Place and, for luxury items, the historic Bellevue building has a collection of designer brands like Ralph Lauren and Tiffany & Co. Shoppers in Chicago head to the Magnifi cent
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Mile, the city’s best-known shopping shrine and the home of its most iconic buildings – it even has a shopping festival at the end of August. More ‘left fi eld’ is the Wicker Park/
Bucktown area of the city, where dozens of boutiques sell everything from jewellery to clothes, crafts and antiques. California is a shopper’s paradise. Quirky San Francisco is well known for its thrift stores and
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