Shopping in Coimbatore

Located in the shadow region of the Western Ghats, Coimbatore is considered to be the perfect destination that is marked with glorious temples and tourist spots. Being a metropolis, Coimbatore is widely famous for providing quality engineering machines, traditional silk clothing, automobile parts, jewelry, health care facilities and hospitality. Popularly known for its textiles and cottage spinning units, the modern city is the major shopping hub for traditional shopping in South India. The textile commercial showrooms offer a wide range of quality materials for the first time shoppers.

Despite being a major commercial hub, the city has managed to retain its ancient tradition and culture in the local region. Tourists can avail the best fabrics like soft smooth silk and light crispy cotton in the shopping areas of the city. Apart from textiles, there are number of shops that display handicraft products, sweets, jewelry items and so on. Some of the common shopping areas in Coimbatore include Big Bazaar Street, Avinashi Road, Oppanakkara Street, Raja Street, Sukravar Pettai, R.S.Puram and much more. Now, let us look at some of the popular shopping places in Coimbatore in the following manner:

One of the main shopping areas situated in the city of Coimbatore is Cross-Cut Road, Gandhipuram. If you are planning to purchase everything under one corner, then the Cross-Cut Road would be the best match suiting to your taste and requirement. Here, you can see a number of textile and jewelry retail shops that is spread in various streets of Gandhipuram. The jewelery showrooms available in the Cross-Cut Road include Thulasi Jewelers & Diamond, Shri Arthi Jewelers and Sri Ram Maruthy Jewelers.

Further, these jeweleries hold a wide range of exquisite gold and diamond jewelry items. The city holds several textile showrooms that sell casual wear and ethnic wear catering to the entire family. People who are searching for a nice collection of saris in different fabrics can check out Mahaveers, Royal Garments, Kalyan Sarees, Kalanikethan, Sri Ganapathy Silks and Roopsagar in the crosscut road. It is believed that the prices of the products in this locality are reasonable and the quality of products is good. You can also find great range of shopping carts such as hotels, cinema theatres and restaurants in the surrounding areas of the Cross-Cut Road.

If you are brand conscious person, then ensure to visit D.B.Road with your friends and family. D.B.Road is exactly located on R.S Puram that is considered to be the home for several international brands. R.S.Puram, one of the planned localities in Coimbatore is filled with high class shopping spots all over the place. Also known as the costly shopping corridor, D.B.Road holds some of the famous theatres (Kennedy Theatre), retail outlets (Adidas, Puma and Crocodile) and much more. Although the local people of the city are not fond of brands, Coimbatore is still doing good sales in the cosmopolitian atmosphere of the city.

It is essential to know that the city offers the best shopping complexes and malls to attract the family shoppers to the destination. Coimbatore Crosscut road and Saibaba Colony have a number of retail business houses and shopping complexes enabling to spend your time and money useful. Sri Lakshim Complex is in the heart of city that offers food, recreation, entertainment, shopping in one roof. In the complex, you will be able to find beauty parlours, fitness centres and spa salons.

In FMCG Market, people can get all the essential grocery items such as grains, spices, condiments, nuts, dry fruits at whole sale prices. Usually, the market will be flooded with distributors, agents and traders of all FMCG products. Towards the end of the Gandhipuram Road, you can see a place named “Sunday Market”. This market place enables the people to purchase all readymade and inner ware accessories, hosiery textiles at whole sale and retail prices based on your amount.

Coimbatore is gradually getting into the mall culture, though it still has miles to go before it catch with Delhi or Mumbai. Brookefields is one of the famous shopping malls  in Brooke Bond Road of Coimbatore. This beautiful mall is equivalent to the malls in Dubai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and so on. It also holds large branded showrooms along with entertainment facilities such as cinemas, restaurants and gaming world.