The best fashion and gift stores Skopje

This shopping center houses some sixty stores: telephony, e-cigarettes, bookshops, florists, jewelers, perfumeries, clothing, sporting goods, furniture, and more. There's also free parking, cafés, Avis car rental, a children's play area for a fee and eight fast-food outlets and restaurants. The Ramstore Mall is part of the Ramstore chain of supermarkets and mini-markets founded by the Turkish Migros group in 2005, and whose network in Northern Macedonia will be taken over in 2021 by City Plaza, a local construction group.

The GTC or "city mall" (Градски Трговски Центар - ГТЦ) is the main shopping place on the western side of the city center. On two levels, it has about 100 stores: food, telephony, ready-to-wear, shoes, jewelry, books, watches, etc. There is also an underground parking lot, travel agencies, restaurants, one or two nightclubs (which often change names and owners), a bowling alley, a conference room and the Millenium cinema. See also "Things to see/do" on the west side.

This jeweler (Македонски Рубин Деко) specializes in "Macedonian rubies", a semi-precious stone whose color oscillates between pale red and pink. A former punk musician, Dejan Škartov, aka Deko, offers brooches, earrings and pendants set with these "rubies" from the Prilep region. The result is superb, inexpensive (from 1,500 MKD) and 100% local. Of particular note are the filigree suns and butterflies: fine silver filaments soldered together to give the effect of embroidery.