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Shopping in the UK is short from becoming a national sport.

Not only residents of the UK make their daily local shopping, but many visitors happily go there to empty their pockets. About 73% of the country's GDP is brought in by the service sector and billions of pounds go into the UK from its tourist industry.

All throughout the United Kingdom people have learned how to best deal with the current economic situation, constantly opening souvenirs shops for tourists, small vintage shops for the bohemians, farmers markets for those who want to avoid the huge malls and universal stores.

The UK operates under a market economy, in other words they are dealing with a competitive market where sooner rather than later a perfect economic equilibrium is found between price and quantity.

Shoppers in the UK do a very good job taking into consideration the fact that shopping centers keep appearing throughout the country. Some of the most popular shopping centers in the UK are the MetroCentre in Gateshead, Westfield Stratford City in Stratford or the Westfield Merry Hill in Dudley.

Far from being an issue or a bankruptcy risk, stores that sell the right kind of products for the majority of buyers, have great success in the UK, like in any other developed country.