The best fashion and gift stores The United States Of America

Timetable

Department stores close at 10 or 11 pm and are open on Sundays. But the small stores and the stores of the cultural places close around 5 pm, except possibly one night per week.

Budget & Tips

The prices displayed in the stores are always exclusive of tax, so you have to do the mental calculation to know the real amount of your purchase. Concept stores, flag stores and other stores dedicated to this or that brand, even floors dedicated to M&M's, Disney, costumes, etc., turn the heads of collectors and fans.

Sales

New York and Los Angeles are the champions of sales. In the United States, the summer sales start on July 4th,Independence Day. The winter sales begin on December 26 and end in late January. Then there are the President's Day sales on February 21, the Memorial Day Weekend at the end of May, the Back-to-school/Fall Preview from July 26 to August¹, Labor Day Weekend, in fact a week from the end of August to the beginning of September and Columbus Day on October 12

The very consumerist Black Friday is a weekend of exceptional sales born in the U.S. and very popular that takes place every year on the Friday of the last weekend of November, the day after Thanksgiving. This formula has now arrived in Europe.

What's very local

You are in the land of consumerism. The USA is home to huge malls (shopping centers) of which it is the pioneer. The largest and the first is the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota (1992), followed by the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania, the Aventura Mall in Florida, and Destiny USA in Syracuse, New York.

You will find a pharmacy section in the drugstores open 24 hours a day