Sunday, January 03, 2010

Retail spaces

And to conclude the series of my picture posts, here're some retail spaces. Much of the shopping is done in the open air markets, which has an excellent variety of food, especially fish and vegetables:









(Yes, there are supermarkets, but those are not nearly as fun to photograph)

Clothes can be found in the markets:


As well as more Western-style stores:


Living up to its title as the most expensive city in Europe, Moscow's downtown is crawling with high-end stores and boutiques. It looks like most of downtown houses have been converting into retail spaces. Ah, gentrification of an entire city. The mind boggles.


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