Plate M-14 · 159 stores · 151–159 of 159 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 159 shops in 42 countries. Tokyo has the most with 14, followed by Paris with 11. Among these shops, 15 sell online, going by their own descriptions.
Ask about tax refunds: visitors from abroad may be able to reclaim sales tax, so ask at the service desk before paying.
Ask about delivery to your hotel: large stores often send purchases on, which saves carrying bags through the day.
Ask which floor holds what: ask for the store directory before you start, since departments can move between seasons.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Castle Arcade, Cardiff
Rules of Play is an independent games shop in the Victorian Castle Arcade, carrying board games, card games, role-playing systems and miniatures chosen by staff who play them. In-store demo tables and gaming events draw Cardiff's tabletop community.
Best for Board and tabletop games
Centro
The city-center market hall combining independent fresh-food traders with specialty retail.Established 1884.
Best for Independent fresh-food traders and specialty retail at this market hall since 1884
Shelburne Vt / United States
An original Vermont country store dating to at least 1859, Shelburne Country Store still occupies its 1830s building in the heart of the village, selling Vermont maple products, homemade fudge, and old-fashioned candy. The full online shop mirrors its in-store selection of toys, gifts, and housewares.
Best for General store, Vermont gifts, Maple products
Stare Miasto
Stary Kleparz is a covered market of independent produce, flower, meat and pantry stalls near Kraków’s old centre. Each stall is a separate seller, so opening hours and payment options can differ.
Best for Fresh produce, flowers, and Polish specialties near the Planty
Stare Miasto
Kraków’s Sukiennice is a Renaissance market hall containing many independent handicraft and souvenir stalls. It is a multi-vendor landmark, so individual sellers should not be represented as one merchant.
Best for Renaissance-era stalls on Rynek Główny selling Polish handicrafts and souvenirs
Orchard Road
Founded in 1932 by C.K. Tang, a Chinese immigrant who began selling linen and lace from tin trunks; its Orchard Road flagship, opened in 1958, drew its pagoda-style roof and colors from Chinese imperial architecture.
Best for Singapore's oldest department store 1932.
Tangs traces back to Tang Choon Keng, a Teochew immigrant who arrived in British Singapore in 1923 after growing up in Shantou, China, the son of a Presbyterian pastor. He started by peddling hand-made Swatow lace, embroidery and linen door to door with a rented rickshaw and a pair of tin trunks, work that earned him the nicknames 'Tin Trunk Man' and 'Curio King.' In 1932, with S$3,000 in capital, he opened a department store on the first floor of a building on River Valley Road, selling craft goods imported from China. In 1958 Tang bought land at the corner of Orchard Road and Scotts Road, building the store that made his name synonymous with the street: a Chinese imperial-style building modeled on the Forbidden City, with green roof tiles for prosperity, yellow facades associated with royalty, red columns for happiness, and octagonal motifs drawn from feng shui. That purchase is credited with helping establish Orchard Road as Singapore's main shopping district. For decades the store stayed closed on Sundays in keeping with the Tang family's Christian faith, a policy that held until after C.K. Tang's death in 2000, when his son Tang Wee Sung took over and began Sunday trading. The flagship underwent a S$45 million renovation starting in 2012, and the company later added a VivoCity location before withdrawing from a Malaysian venture in 2020.
Suva / across Fiji
The Tappoo family built Fiji's other great retail house from a 1941 tailor's bench — homewares, fashion and island living across the archipelago, still family-run.
Best for Fiji’s family-run homeware and gift house
Sweet Auburn
Open in the Sweet Auburn district since 1918, this public market houses independent food stalls, butchers, produce vendors and prepared-food merchants. The historic hall keeps small food businesses trading under one roof.
Best for Historic market food halls, local butchers and prepared foods
Weston Vt / Online
Founded in 1946, The Vermont Country Store sells hard-to-find bedding, housewares, apparel, toys, and Vermont maple syrup from its original general stores in Weston and Rockingham, Vermont. Every purchase is backed by a no-hassle, 100% satisfaction guarantee, with the full catalogue also sold through the company's online store.
Best for General Store
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