Shopping in Kolkata offers immense pleasure to all the local customers as well as to the foreign tourists. In the true sense, Kolkata can be called a 'shopping paradise'. There are several shopping centers all over the city. Most of the shops in Calcutta follow bargaining policy. So, if you are good at bargaining come and have a pleasurable experience of shopping in Kolkata. The specialty of this "City of Joy" is that here all types of materials remain available under one roof.
Some of the places, where people can purchase goods by bargaining are New Market, College Street, AC Market, Dharmatala, Barabazar, Vardaan Market, Shree Ram Arcade, Park Street, Ultadanga, Shyambazar, Hatibagan, Gariahat, Fancy market, Lake Market and Kalighat. In those places all sorts of staffs usually remain available.
If one is looking for branded products then one can visit Gariahat Mall, Pantaloons, Metro Plaza, and Shopper's Stop. Big Bazar, Kolkata Bazar, Vishal Megamart,
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Dakhinapan, City Mart and Charnock City, City Style are some of the prominent shopping centers of Calcutta city. The specialty of Dakhinapan is that it houses several emporiums and hand looms. So, if you are interested to wear ethnic clothes, this indeed is the perfect place to go for.
Music World (Park Street), on the other hand, is mostly frequented by the music lovers. Here, one will find wide collections of VCDs and DVDs.
Calcutta also houses a series of good jewelry shops. Some of the most reputed among them are A. Sirkar Jewellers, B. Sirkar Jewellers, Anjali Jwellers, P.C. Chandra and Senco Gold. All of these shops have great collections of bridal as well as light jewelries.
This metropolitan city of Kolkata has also a number of gift shops, where wide range of gift items is available. Among them Archies Gallery, Gift Palace, Economic Gallery, Calyx Gift Item, Emotion, Classic Gift Gallery, Cima Gift Shop and Avinandan House Of Exclusive Gift Item are famous gift centers of Kolkata.
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