Helsinki is a good place to shop. In the center of Helsinki is a shopping center, Forum, which is mostly full of popular youth's clothing shops like Backstreet, Lindex, H&M, Seppälä, KappAhl, O.N.L.Y, and many, many more. Forum includes a few restaurants and then places like Mc Donalds, Arnolds, and some Finnish companys like Hesburger, Café Picnic and pizzerias. Also for older people is shops too like Marimekko, Idea, Pierre Cavallo, Tiimari, Sokos.

Itakeskus is huge & probably the biggest shopping center in any of the Nordic Countries, a good place to shop. In Itakeskus there are many shops like Tarjoustalo, Euron Ihme, Anttila, and the youths shops H&M, Seppala, Lindex, Vero Moda, O.N.L.Y, KappAhl. There are also gift shops Idea, Indiska & the Bookshops, Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa. Computer shops, Veikon Kone, ON/OFF. Helsinki and towns close to Helsinki are full of shopping centers, Jumbo (Vantaa), Myyrmanni (Vantaa), Forum (Helsinki), Itakeskus (HKI), Malmin Nova (HKI) Iso-Omena (Espoo), Lippulaiva (Espoo) and the newest Sello (Espoo).