Giza's shopping runs from the alabaster and camel-leather stalls under the plateau to the weaving looms of Harraniya village and the glass-and-marble halls of Mall of Arabia. Cash in Egyptian pounds and slow haggling get the best prices.
The village street below the Sphinx is lined with family alabaster ateliers where cutters shape canopic jars, oil lamps and scarabs on foot-driven lathes. Open roughly 08:00–19:00. Small carved lamp 250–600 EGP, large jar 1,200 EGP+.
One of the long-running essential-oil houses on Al-Haram, selling uncut lotus, jasmine, sandalwood and 'secret of the desert' blends decanted from tall glass vats into hand-blown Pyrex bottles. 100 ml oil about 200–450 EGP.
Working studio where cyperus papyrus stalks are peeled, soaked and cross-pressed into sheets before artists paint Book of the Dead scenes in gold leaf. Demonstrations run all day; sheets are stamped and numbered on the back. Open about 09:00–18:00.
The covered lane at the Sphinx gate stacks camel-leather poufs, sandals, bags and brass-inlaid boxes, plus silver cartouche pendants engraved with your name in hieroglyphs while you wait. Silver cartouche around 700–1,400 EGP by weight.
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Egypt's largest mall by leasable area, on the Cairo–Alexandria desert road end of Giza, with roughly 350 shops including Zara, Mango, H&M and Egyptian labels like Concrete and Mobaco Cottons. Open 10:00–23:00, later on Thursday–Saturday.
Ramses Wissa Wassef's 1950s weaving school in a mudbrick-domed compound, where two generations of Harraniya weavers make undyed-wool and cotton tapestries with no drawn pattern. Tapestries are signed by the weaver. Closed Sundays.
The lane around the weaving centre holds independent studios for hand-knotted kilims, batik cottons and stained-glass panels, run by families trained at Wissa Wassef. Small kilim rug 1,500–4,000 EGP; batik wall hanging from 600 EGP.
The Emaar-built mall on the Wahat road pairs international chains with an Egyptian-produce hall selling Siwa dates, Sinai desert honey, karkade hibiscus and dukkah spice blends in sealed gift tins — easier through customs than loose market spices.
Egypt's main livestock market, moved here from Imbaba, trading Sudanese camels driven up the Forty Days Road every Friday and Sunday from about 06:00 to 11:00. Sellers also hawk camel-hair blankets, saddle bags, sticks and bells.
Giza's everyday street market by the Nile embankment, where produce carts, spice sacks, pressed-copper trays and secondhand galabeyas share the pavement. Prices are local rather than tourist: a kilo of dried hibiscus runs 120–180 EGP.
Small kilns in the residential streets east of the plateau fire Egyptian blue faience amulets, ushabti figures and glazed scarabs using copper-oxide glaze recipes reconstructed from Old Kingdom finds. Scarabs 80–250 EGP, ushabti 400–900 EGP.
The stretch outside the plateau's eastern gate stocks tabla and darbuka drums with fish-skin heads, simsimiyya lyres and reed nay flutes, sold by the families who tune them. A tuned ceramic darbuka runs 900–2,000 EGP.