166 Best Places to Shop in USA

This shop and tearoom blends its own teas and spices, and also sells a range of Alaska-made groceries from spruce tip jelly to kelp-and-cayenne chocolate bars.

Selling foods from American cottage farmers and artisans as well as homemade oils, soaps, and bath salts, the Deli also has a juice bar and is a good place to get tea, coffee, shakes, pastries, deli meats, organic produce, and other tasty snacks. Stop here before your hike to pick up a fresh sandwich.

At the south end of town near the cruise-ship docks and Goldbelt Tram, Taku Store processes nearly 6 million pounds of fish a year, mostly salmon. The smoked sockeye fillets make excellent gifts. You can view the smoking procedure through large windows, and then purchase the packaged fish in the deli-style gift shop or have some shipped back home.

This market puts out nearly two dozen kinds of peaches, as well as apples and pears, and the juices of all three annually from mid-July through the end of December. The huge, fourth-generation-run operation sells local products and will take you on a tour of the place if you ask. The rustic taproom sells apple cider, apple juice, hard cider, and local wines.

A big ole taste of Texas awaits at this delightful gourmet food shop, also known as Rustlin’ Rob's Texas Gourmet Food. The shop features a vast and irresistible range of hot sauce, salsa, jerky, preserves, and rubs and spices, almost all made in Texas. As a nod to Fredericksburg’s German roots, they also offer spices for German mulled wine. Find a perfect gift—the Dynamite Chili Fixins and Cornbread bundle is a standout—but you will likely end up taking something home for yourself, too.

Light, bright, and filled to the brim with just about every iteration of Texas salt imaginable: smoked salts, spicy salts, culinary and cooking salts, beer and cocktail salts, and the coup de grace: cowboy salt, which is cold-smoked over hardwood, with garlic and fresh rosemary, perfect for finishing meat and seafood. You can also find great gift sets, candles, and a few kitchen accessories. The salt is smoked over bourbon barrels, and it's so good that it's honestly a little addictive.

This locally owned and operated grocery store chain is a community staple on Maui, with an outstanding seafood counter, locally made products, bakery, and a full grocery selection.

Sample smoked or canned halibut and salmon at Tonka Seafoods, located in the old Mitkof Cannery building. Be sure to taste the white king salmon—an especially flavorful type of chinook that the locals swear by. Tonka will also ship.

Avoid the hassle of airport inspections: this company specializes in packing inspected pineapple and papaya and will deliver to your hotel and to the airport check-in counter. It also ships to elsewhere in the United States as well as to Canada. Think about ordering online.

This family orchard, established in 1953 by George and Nelda Vogel, offers a variety of homemade products, including delicious peach butters, peach preserves, and other fruit jellies. Try a scoop of homemade blackberry or peach butter ice cream before hitting the road with a box or two of Vogel peaches in tow. Or, if you prefer, have them shipped.

This rustic oyster farm is tucked into a small bay 2 miles south of Roche Harbor; the best time to buy oysters is November through April, and you can buy, shuck, and eat them on-site. The farm sells local bakery bread, cheese, charcuterie, salads, and beer and wine if you want to make a meal of it. Or stop by the Tide Tables restaurant at lunchtime for raw or grilled oysters, clams cooked in wine, paninis, and salads. The helpful farm staff will even show you how to shuck oysters.

This busy supermarket carries local organic produce, and the seafood, bakery, beer and wine, and meat offerings are exceptional. The pricey prepared foods—including pizza, sushi, a salad bar, Asian bowls, and Mexican fare—attract crowds.

Sweeten your visit to Freeport with a taste of Maine’s official state treat: the whoopie pie, consisting of two small cake rounds with a creamy filling. The selection here includes the classic chocolate cake with vanilla filling as well as some 20 enticing variations, including banana cream, mint, red velvet, and peanut butter. These discs of deliciousness come individually packaged, making them great for gifts as well as on-the-go snacks.

Many of the city's best chefs get their herbs, spices, and salts at this aromatic shop under Pike Place Market. From Middle Eastern, Asian, Italian, and Pacific Northwest–inspired blends, to cinnamon, paprika, and chilis from around the world, home chefs will be in heaven here.

Picking up freshly baked breads, pastries, cookies, ice cream, and other sweets here has been a tradition since 1948.