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This is just a brief bit about shopping in general, and not anything store-specific. We didn't really do a lot of it while there, choosing instead to see some of the main attractions and as much of the city as we could by foot, tram, and with a canal boat tour.
If in the Dam Square area, there is a supermarket directly behind the Royal Palace on the next street over, one in the Albert Heijn store chain. While not nearly as large or with the vast selection of a typical U.S. grocery store, we found all the basic things we were looking for to stock up for our apartment stay. One block further on in this direction from the square is the Magna Plaza, a beautiful structure that's considered a mall, I guess, with a variety of stores, mostly clothing. There's a large department store, De Bijenkorf, on the corner of the street between the Majestic restaurant and the main Dam Square tram stops.
There's an abundance of shops selling everything from souvenirs to clothes to you-name-it down most any street you walk anywhere near Dam Square, and in other popular areas of the city such as the Leidseplein.
What To Pay: We found prices at the Albert Heijn supermarket to be very comparable to U.S. ones when taken at face value of Euros, but more expensive by a fair bit considering the poor 1-to-1.3 or so conversion rate of Euros-to-dollars at the time of our visit. From what we saw of clothing prices, mainly at the Magna Plaza, they looked to be pretty expensive.
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This is going to sound weird but you decide whether you have things to declare or not. If not, you can go through the 'green' exit'. You may be pulled over by customs officials who think you look dodgy or suspect, but mostly, you can walk straight out. | Pavlik_NL Sun Jan 16, 2005 16:13 UTC
Good tips & nice pages. Amsterdam is indeed a strange place, but I hope that NL & A'dam never become a police-state. Safety should come from preventing things happening to yourself, not from being protected. That's what the Dutch tolerance is all about. | scottishvisitor Fri Dec 31, 2004 22:20 UTC
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