Being
a metropolis, Coimbatore has many up-market malls featuring all the
major international brands. Raja Street and Sukravar Pettai are the
places where you will get good textile apparels. The city has the best
kind of khadi, which is Indian hand-woven cloth, in Khadicrafts.
Coimbatore may not be a popular shopping destination but one can surely
look forward to buy a few things. Coimbatore is an important industrial
city of Tamilnadu renowned for its textile mills and engineering
industry. Coimbatore is famous for markets housing automobile parts that
are among the cheapest in southern India.
Some of the main places to shop in Coimbatore are, Big Bazaar at
Oppanakkara Street, Raja Street at Ranga Gownder Street, Sukravar Pettai
(for Handloom Saris), Poompuhar Handicrafts Emporium, Co-optex,
Khadikrafts and Tansi Sales Center.