Riyadh Shopping

If in you are arriving to Riyadh to stay for some two to three years, and you are not staying in a full furnitured flat, I would suggest IKEA for you for its nice looking, lower than average prices, and fine quality for less than 5 years uses.
The Swedish famous furniture brand operates a giant store in eatern side of Riyadh where shopping is real pleasure.
As its around the world, IKEA offer - a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at low prices.
The smart about it is shopping culture and the wide range of solutions and suggestions and creative idea to furniture you home or even small flat.
The two stories huge building covers thousands of square metres, and it seprated to sections, for kitchens, bed rooms, living rooms, kids rooms, while it has place for self service where you can collect all items you want.
The other nice thing about IKEA is how it give you the opportunity to experience to assemble your item.

Riyadh Showroom includes several Restaurants offering Swedish, and Middle Eastern food. Actualy one of the Shawrma restaurant sell each by SAR 1, the cheapest in town.

From the New on IKEA Saudi Arabia

2 September 2004 — Three men were killed and 16 injured in a stampede when thousands of people rushed to claim cash vouchers at the opening of an IKEA furniture showroom at its new location near the intersection of Tahlia and Sitteen streets here (Jeddah).

Many men, women and children fainted and some of them were trampled upon as the crowd of shoppers swelled just before the opening. The Red Crescent rushed some of the victims to the nearby King Fahd Hospital.

The hospital received 19 stampede victims, of whom three died.

What to buy: Furniture Items, kitchen stuff.

What to pay: Average prices, normal qualitfy

Accessorize store is familiar in UK also well know in middle east for ladies accessories as well as for young gilrs, you can find here everything you need to accessorize your style or outfit from top to toe like hats, bags, slippers, fancy jewelries and a lot more.

As I can see ladies here are fashionable though they wore an abbaya all the time but they love accessories most of jewelries and they should be worn it when they have a special occasions like wedding, special gathering where girls get together.

Accessorize has a large franchise store in riyadh located at the well known malls like, kingdom tower, faisahlia, khurais plaza, granada center, rimal and lots more.

What to buy: accessories

What to pay: affordable prices

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If you want to shop in one place that
everything is under one roof go to Geant mall.

What to buy: They are offer a complete range of your needs, like house hold, electronics,appliances,fresh foods, basic needs and everything.

What to pay: Best prices guaranteed!!!

Red Tag is new in Riyadh it is a store where you can find of clothings for women, children shoes bags etc. the store originally came from Abu Dhabi,UAE, Red tag is a very attractive for me maybe because of the red color of their motif, and at the same time the affordable prices of their products. First time I visited the Red Tag was in Abu Dhabi and when I saw the store here was a big surprise for me.

What to buy: more for children's clothings

What to pay: affordable price

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I really like this brand although it is too expensive but worth to have it. The coach store I visited is in Al Faisalia and the new one recently opened is in Centria mall located in Olaya and Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Road (Tahliya Street).

What to buy: handbags and wallets

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Al- Sawani store is a big group of company here in Riyadh selling different kids of branded clothing, shoes like Guess, Esprit, Benetton, Xoxo, and many more.

I accidentally saw this store when we're on our way home from Kingdom tower, I saw the sign that they were on sale 80% off and I asked my hubby to check for a while I got panic and i never had a second though to shop all sales are branded clothes.
Guess were on sale at 80% off, esprit 75%, xoxo 75%, united colors of benetton 80%, nike, lives and many more.
I had a great time shopping in this store.

What to buy: I shopped more in guess for my kids I like this brand for them.

What to pay: the original prices of the branded clothes here are expensive, but though I bought it all on sale price i spent only 400 riyals or ($100us)

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Shopping in Kingdom Tower is more on luxury brands, It has a 3 levels where you can spend your time to shop, at the first level you can shop on more clothing at Debenhams, kids stores, sports, jewelries and more... at the 2nd level is more on luxury brand, a clothing for men, stores for designers bags, shoes and jewelries, at the 3rd level is the Ladies Kingdom which is dedicated for the female shoppers only.

What to buy: You can shop here some of the luxury brands name such as Calvin Klein, ralf lauren, gucci, burberry, Saks fifth avenue, LV, lacoste, coach, Dior, D&G and many more.

What to pay: expensive for the high end shop

i have been to this mall on my last trip as if it was my first time there ever! my colleague took me to the lady-only floor of this mall, which is exlusively run by women staff, and attended by women customers. there are cafes and restaurants for women only.

this comes as a reaction to women's need for privacy from men's 'intrusion'. since women in saudi are expected to cover their head and sometimes their face, this shopping mall gives them more freedom to do their shopping more freely.

the shopping mall consists of 4 floors; one is for women only. the rest of the building is just giantic and probably more than 60 floors. you can see it from the airplane!

What to buy: all major brands from United Colours of Benetton to Georgio Armani
restaurants
cafés
beauty salons
lingerie
music
choclataire

What to pay: average to expensive