Residents and visitors from around the UK and overseas are drawn to the city’s expanding shopping outlets, including:

• Shopping malls like the chic and trendy Princes Square, the enormous St Enoch Centre, Sauchiehall Street Centre, Parkhead Forge, the historical Argyle Arcade, and the Buchanan Galleries (opened 1999)
• The main pedestrianised shopping thoroughfares of Sauchiehall Street, Buchanan Street and Argyle Street.
• The unique and colourful Barras weekend street market
• The smaller, characterful outlets of the city’s bohemian West End
• A wide range of top class cafés, restaurants, pubs and wine bars

City Centre Representatives to help shoppers and visitors around the city, and a comprehensive City Watch close-circuit TV scheme keeping a watchful eye on the streets.