Riyadh Shopping

Manila plaza is the most popular store for Filipino expat, much for bargaining buys, like gold jewelries, cell phone stores and clothing products.

Restaurant also should be found at the 3rd level, alraji bank remittance, barbershop and lots more.

What to buy: cellphones accessories and jewelries

Shopping is a way of living in riyadh from the souq to well known department store or the street by street shopping store.

Olaya is the the main shopping street in riyadh stretching from prince abdul Aziz street in the north to the makkah highway in the south. You can find here much of international brand.

for those serious shopper take note about your planning time as we know all shops were close for prayer times.

What to buy: local to international brand

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Granada center is the largest mall i've ever seen here in riyadh it is 200,000 sq m with a 2 floor shopping facility (ground floor and 1st floor ), a mall where you can shop untill you drop, from local to International branded clothes, shoes perfumes beauty products are here.

The largest stores you can be found here are the Debenhams,Paris Gallery and Etam.

as a rule family is only allowed to enter on this mall.

What to buy: as many as you can see

What to pay: expect to spend lots of money here if you dont know how to control your self

Panda is the first local supermarket in Riyadh a well known largest supermarket in KSA it has more than 20 branches all over the city not including in jedda and other parts of KSA they continue building more braches in the kingdom aim to have 100 supermarkets and 60 hypermarkets by year 2010.

Panda provides all your needs with talking about their products foods are great at affordable Prices and gives especial weekly promotion, good quality of electronics, home decors, tools and more…

What to buy: basic needs

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Carrefour is an international supermarket established in 1963 in Paris, maintains the top position in European mass retailing and the second worldwide in terms of revenue and sales figure.

It is one of the well known hypermarket in KSA with lots of branches including the 3 branches here in Riyadh located at Granada center, Khurais road and Lemall,

What to buy: Carrefour is one of my favorite supermarket I can find here all of our needs at a very low prices and quality goods like foods, clothing, homedecors,electronics, and lots more

What to pay: affordable prices

Saudi National Products is one shop which caters to home needs like matress, Plastic containers, bathroom accessories.They even have a small shop for foods, grocery items and dates :-)

Resonable prices.

Saco is known for its home furnishing items...Smaller than home plaza but selection of goods is not far behind. Screws, Lamp Shades, heater, weighing scale, candles, mats, blinds, shower curtain etc..name it and most of the general items which u will need will be avaiblae here.

Al Faisalia is one of the famous shopping mall here in Riyadh. They have a huge selection of designer shops like Nike, Zara, Mango etc.

The mall is connected to the high rise building (as shown in the photo) and it has a restaurant on top.

The good thing about the winter sale is that, they dont go for 10-30% off from the regular price but moreso they reduced the price upto 70% off. Mind you, that those are not off season clothes but the latest designs..