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Shopping

Seattle's Waterfront and the Pike Place Market offer all the crazy souvenirs imaginable, from wooden slugs (which look a lot like the real thing) to Space Needle hats, and, of course, enormous sides of smoked Alaska salmon to ship home. The true downtown shopping core, however, is between First and Sixth Avenues and Olive and University Streets, including the flagship Nordstrom store, Old Navy, the Bon Marche, Pacific Place Mall, Barney's, Nike Town, FAO Schwartz, Anne Taylor, Planet Hollywood, Barnes & Noble and more. Belltown, north along First Avenue from the city centre, has unique boutiques with everything from locally designed clothing, imported shoes, antiques, used clothing and more. Ruby Montana's Pinto Pony, 1623 Second Avenue (website: www.rubymontana.com), is an emporium of kitsch, both modern and vintage, from salt- and pepper-shakers to furniture. Another great 'goofy gift' shop is Archie McPhee's, 2428 Market Street, in Ballard.

Shopping hours are 0930-1800 on average, including Sundays. Seattle sales tax is 8.6 percent on non-food items and 9.1 percent on restaurant meals; but this is not reclaimable as in some states.



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