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Shopping in Peru

The tremendous variety of shopping facilities Peru has to offer will amaze you – Especially in Lima and other main cities throughout the country. I can assure it will cater nearly all tastes and preferences.

You can shop on traditional fruit and veggie markets or in modern supermarkets. For clothes you have the choice between many fancy boutiques, department stores, street markets and everything in between. We can find unique Peruvian craftsmanship and cheap souvenirs in exclusive shops or in crafts markets. Western-style shopping malls are contrastive to the “Peruvian Way of Shopping”. So, enjoy your shopping experiences, either the modern or the traditional way.

Arts, Crafts & Souvenirs in Peru (2)

Shopping Malls & Commercial Centers in Peru (16)

Supermarkets in Peru (5)

Ripley

Department Stores in Peru
 
The Chilean company Ripley opened its first department store in 1997 in Lima’s Jockey Plaza. They gave customers at this time a completely new and unique shopping experience by implementing a modern décor and offering a wide range of imported products including brands known all over the world.

Saga Falabella

Department Stores in Peru
 
In 1988 Sears Peru, a well known department store chain, transformed into a company called Saga. Saga merged in 1995 with the Chilean retailer Falabella and a new big player in the Peruvian department store game was born. Over the coming years Saga Falabella constantly expanded in Lima and Peru. Today they offer their customers a wide range of f…

Oechsle

Department Stores in Peru
 
The Oechsle department store has an almost legendary status. Being the first department store in Lima at the beginning of the 20th century and the only one where the upper class could get elegant and stylish items nowhere else to find in Lima, it went bankrupt in the 1990s. In 2009 Oechsle re-opened again and is expanding in Lima and Peru’s…

Gamarra

Shopping the Peruvian Way
 
Located in the heart of La Victoria is Gamarra, Lima’s clothes district. Approx. 20,000 small to middle size shops are spread over 20 blocks. The main shopping area can be found at block 6 to 10 of Jiron Agustin Gamarra, which is closed for traffic and the surrounding smaller streets.Gamarra combines a cluster of small stores with modern sh..

Polvos Azules

Shopping the Peruvian Way
 
Polvos Azules “shopping center” is a cluster of small stores, spread over three floors. In Polvos Azules you can find hundreds of stores offering clothes, shoes, sports gear including running shoes and trekking boots, backpacks, bags, toys and perfumes. Well known is Polvos Azules as well for their wide range of electronic equipments. 

Wilson Computer Center

Shopping the Peruvian Way
 
Once being one of the most luxurious streets in Lima, the Av. Wilson, or Av. Garcilaso de la Vega as it’s called today, is heavily congested by buses and cars. Anyhow on block 11 and 12 computer enthusiasts find a small heaven. Within some sort of a shopping complex hundreds of small and bigger stores sell all kind of computer hard- and software.

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