Shopping

The number shopping malls in Turkey has increased by 27.5 percent in the last five years to 412, putting more pressure on the already struggling shop owners, the head the country's biggest shop owners confederation has said.

Homegrown online shops are gaining ground in Greece, as 85 percent of consumers in the country use them for the vast majority of their online purchases, according to a survey by the E-Business Research Center of the Athens University for Economics and Business (ELTRUN) and the Association of Business and Retail Sales in Greece (SELPE).

There were no gigantic midnight queues as the gates of stores or shopping malls across Turkey in the early hours of Nov. 23, but every year the country embraces the so-called "Black Friday" shopping spree, with more online businesses joining discount campaigns.

Competition among Greek retail chains, particularly those in the technology and electronics sector, is becoming fiercer than ever in the runup to Black Friday, with many retailers having already started offering special discounts.

Romanians went on a mammoth shopping spree on Friday, as the country's biggest retailers started the 2018 Black Friday sales marathon.

Foreign tourists visiting Istanbul have flocked to the city’s shopping malls to buy luxury items as they want to benefit from the stronger United States dollar. Click through for the story in photos...

The Week, By Neeta Lal - Exploring local markets is the best way to immerse yourself in a country's culture.

Amazon.com Inc has launched an international shopping feature that will enable customers across the world to shop more than 45 million items that can be shipped to their country from the United States.

Thousands of angry and distraught Russians rallied on March 27 in a Siberian city to demand a full probe into a shopping mall fire that killed at least 64 people, 41 of them children.

The rapid and uncontrolled growth in shopping malls in Turkey over the past few years has severely hit merchants and tradesmen, the head of a leading confederation has said.