The week between Christmas and New Years hosts the best shopping sales of the season. As the start of the after-Christmas sales nears, it is a good idea to begin planning shopping strategies. The first step is to decide which shopping district you want to shop at (or maybe which one is first). Then choose which stores in the area you want to shop at, prioritizing your favorites as the first stop. Last is to decide what stores will be the best fit for what you are looking for. Do you want to shop the big department stores to cover multiple areas or have a chance to go to the local shopping areas to visit the fabulous boutiques? Or it you want to cover as many stores as possible, the Union Square Shopping District in San Francisco may do the trick.
For those interested in San Francisco after Christmas sales, I found the SFGate, SFLuxe, and Yahoo Local as helpful shopping resources. SF Luxe recently posted shopping tips including a website called Indagare. SFGate has a shopping page that lists the main centers such as the San Francisco Shopping Centre and Embarcadero Center. Shopping areas such as Union Square and Fillmore (where Romi boutique is having their annual sale) were also listed.
The Bay Area has shopping districts such as Burlingame, Menlo Park, Palo Alto (including Stanford Shopping Center), Los Altos, Los Gatos and San Jose. Some of my favorite boutiques on the Peninsula are Romi in Palo Alto as well as Calla and 4 Clothing Solutions in Menlo Park.
San Jose has Santana Row, which not only has an amazing selection of designer shops but also spas (like Burke Williams Day Spa) to end a day of shopping with some R&R. Come to think of it, the other areas also have top rate spas, from La Belle in Palo Alto, Thermae in Menlo Park to Kamalaspa in San Francisco.
When it comes to shopping for designer apparel, don't forget that shoe stores like Jimmy Choo are having 50% off sales while many department stores are having 60 to 70% off for their after-Christmas sales (Macys, Norstrom, Barneys, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales and even Saks Fifth Avenue is joining in the fun). Some stores like Saks Fifth Avenue have their biggest discounts the morning of December 26.
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