Barona street

Two already earlier reported new low floor trams.

Girls...

... sitting and chilling in a shop window-case.

Preapring

First snow hits Riga and it is time to acquire winter slippers.

Window-case 1

Here will be a series of some of them.

IKEA

This is IKEA supermarket selling furniture and stuff... from the catalog... I guess.

Discount 60%?

I am very cautious about such ridiculous and unrealistic sales incentives unless shop is ceasing its existence. Are you?

Vidzemes (midlands) Market

This is meat section, further down there is fresh produce and after that there is section for dairy products.

Akmens materiāli (stone materials)

On Deglava street there is a workshop you can get gravestones and other stone "goods".

Straupe

270 dairy farmers have created a cooperative and range of natural and tasty products. You can order online or do, for instance, a purchase in Vidzemes market.

window-shoping

Mannequins on Barona street.

Boss

The boss in England is also called a gaffer. The word probably comes from the word Godfather.

Consumer society

The most frequent phrase in a society that fills the inner emptiness with lots of goods probably is "Next please...".

Drinks

From what I can see this corner shop in Maskachka intention is to inform potential customers in three languages they are selling drinks. The funny part is the Russian bit - "napitki", because Russian language is using Cyrillic alphabet, "napitki" would probably make no sense to the Russian visiting Riga.

Azur

We all know shopping malls as metal boxes with few windows and no architectural value. This one is different. Behind the glass you can see the inner circle of Azur shopping centre. It gives you clue of what it looks like as a whole.

Azur

Interesting fish or may be prawn statue in shopping mall Azur.

Indoor palm tree

Spice shopping centre is one of the largest in Riga and it is growing despite economic decline. They recently opened furniture shop (it is a whole another building) and are preparing to construct high rise office building. Click here for presentation.

Second floor

Or third? My son is 8, he is much shorter than I am (as you can imagine) and because of that he was able to notice that "2" in reflection looks rather like "3".

Domina

The roof top of Domina Shopping mall is a car park. It is linked to the main multilevel car park with a tilted bridge. When I was there last time we stuck on the angle. Possibly because I was too heavy:)

Extreme sports

This is a very small chain of shops selling extreme sports equipment. I like them because they are very accessible with either private or public transport - out centre or in large shopping malls. If you are into it click on title for further info.

Shopping Mall

Many of you have noticed that philosophy of consumerism is contrary to the philosophy of Christianity. As I am making this photo from "Mols" - one of the largest supermarkets in Riga towards an Orthodox Church, I witness their peaceful co-existence next to each other.