Stores, Malls or Markets in Tampere

Lively marketplace in Tampere, Tammela city part. What´s different from other markets (=tori is a markeplace in Finnish) is the flea market tables.
It´s open:
*from monday to saturday from 6 to 14 (2 p.m.)
*Midsommer eve (Juhannusaatto, in friday witch happens to be between 19th to 25th): from 6 – 13
*Christmas eve: from 6 to 12

What to buy: kahvila, grillejä, palvilihaa, mustaamakkaraa, perunat ja juurekset, leivonnaisia, käsityötuotteita, kirpputori ja paljon paljon muuta.

Market cafe goods, smoked ham and other meat, musta makkara (black sausage made from blood, terrible if you ask me, but people born here love it..), new potatos, vegetables, pastries, handgrafts, items from fleamarket tables..

What to pay: Vegetables and other foods are more expensive than in supermarkets, but better.

We just found this, and found many delights in here. For example good gread, made by little family companys. All thhe goods are either from close towns of Tampere, or orcanic.

What to buy: Bread, meat, cheese, vegetable oils, sweets..

What to pay: Little more than in "normal" shops.

If you found yourself at Tampere in the middle of summer,without t-shirt because you thought it would snow,or without umbrella,go to nearets Vapaavalinta,those are really cheap.Also at winter,go to have some woolen clothes.
I can´t promise the quality to be very best,but somtimes they aren´t so bad,as you might thought.I have even had some good ones there.
Thís is also the palce to buy cheapest Iittala-dishes or Hackman-kettles,and some sweets to go.
No "real"food any kind.

What to buy: Clothes,sweets,anything to pets,cleaning-staff and so on..

What to pay: Allmost the cheapest place to buy these things.

They make clothes themselves and also bring some from uproad.For example Finnish rock-band Negative has told to shop here sometimes,and Jan Wilde who´s maybe not so well known outside Finland.

What to buy: They don´t exist at Tampere anymore.Web-shop is still open.Maybe a shop at Helsinki too,check out.

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If you like rock and metal music, you should visit at least one record store in Finland. Probably the only country in the world where rock and metal are the most popular music styles, Finland has a huge selection of hard music styles with many big names in the music business. I went to Swamp Music, one of Tampere’s best known music stores. Swamp consist indeed of two stores. A main store with new CDs and a seocnd one with used ones which is just around the corner and only a little smaller than the main one. Prices are good, especially at the second hand store where you can get some good Finnish rock for a couple of euros.
It is easy to spend half an hour or more in the main shop just by going through the CDs. However, if you are looking for a specific band, you should know exactly which style it belongs to. In case you are lost or can’t find your band, just contact the friendly staff. They may look like like Lordi’s little brother or sisters, but as almost every thing they are freindly, easy going people.

What to buy: Get yourself soemthing from the Leningrad Cowboys, von Hertzen Brothers, SMG (Scandinavian Musicg Group), Lordi, HIM, Sunrise Avenue or any another Finnish Band you like.

If you want to buy something old and traditional,and still (or again) very popular and very Finnish,you should buy "Reinos".Like buying clogs from Netherlands ;)
Reinos are Finnish "home-shoes" witch I can remember my old grandfather using when I was a child,and one time at 80´s young people started to think those are"in".It was forgotten soon,and it came old mens shoes again,but maybe about 10 years ago or so,popular Finnish singer Juice Leskinen started to use these when singing.Then some others too,and biggest luck for the brand was,when HIM-singer Ville Valo told that he loves these.At Finland you might see him using these (I don´t think he uses them ubroad,but I´m not sure).For last years they have come very popular,and they are used also outdoors buy some people.They have started to make new desings but allways the same fabric.Some of them are different color,but brown is original.They also have these in pink for example!
These are now used by any age-groups.And they say to be ecological made.
Reino is old Finnish men name.They have a sister-shoe"Aino",witch is old Finnish womens name (now again very popular,in top 10 I think).Original Ainos are red and have little soft ball-shape tassel.AT the picture you will see original Reino hanging from the wall.Maybe little big one though..

What to buy: Reinos and Ainos are made in Tampere,so it´s really local!They have also bags and other stuff today,also different shaped shoes,even"ballerinas".All made of same checked fabric.(tell you the truth,I hate that fabric..But I must admit,that even if I wouldn´t use these,I like them because they are so"homely",and remind me of my grandfather,who I lost when I was a little.They now have also baby-shoes.
Check these photos:
http://www.reinokauppa.fi/epages/reinokauppa.sf/fi_FI/?ObjectPath=/Shops/reinokauppa/Categories/Kotikeng%A4t
Sadly there´s no English at the page.

What to pay: Original Reinos are right now 34,90e (autumn 2009)

This is a small food-shop at Kaleva-part of Tampere.I just red from local newspaper,that it is believed that there is no more different kinds of imported beers in any shop in Finland!Can´t tell if it´s true,but they have allmost all available brands,so might be true.Even someone from Helsinki told to allways shop for beers here.

What to buy: They sell all foods,and it is so small(in Finland this debends on the size of shop) that it can be open later than other shops.So it´s open from 6.30 to 23.00 witch isn´t normal in Finland.

If you want buy Koskenkorva (they say in English,that it is vodka,but it really sin´t,but close to it.There is also Koskenkorva vodka,but it is different than Koskenkorva original.People call it"kossu")or wine or stronger beer,you can´t buy them in foodstores in Finland.We have a law,that spirits are sold only to adults(over 18years),and you will be asked to prove your age,if you look younger than 23(they have trainings to see who should be asked and they can have inspectors to check the staff asking the papers).
So only place to buy wine,stronger beer and"kossu" is to go to Alko.There is Alko at many places in towns,and also at bigger villages.At towns there are lots of Alkos in departmentstores.You see the sign on the photo.

What to buy: Alcohol..

What to pay: Much more than in most European countries