Casablanca shops like a working city, not a tourist bazaar: wholesale leather on Derb Omar, hand-carved cedar in the Habous, concept stores in Racine and a mall with an aquarium lift. Prices are lower than Marrakech and haggling is still expected.
The walled medina packs tailors, tinsmiths and babouche makers into lanes barely two metres wide. Stalls open around 09:00 and trade until dusk. Leather slippers start near 80 MAD, hand-loomed wool blankets run 250–600 MAD.
The 1917 covered market sells flowers, olives, preserved lemons and Atlantic fish under a Moorish-arched arcade. Pick prawns or sea bream at a fishmonger, then hand them to an adjoining grill stall that cooks your catch for a small fee.
A dense grid of corrugated-roof stalls trading secondhand electronics, vinyl, football shirts, phone parts and vintage Moroccan enamelware. Locals come for repairs and imports; browsers come for 1970s radios and mismatched Fassi pottery.
A pedestrianised Art Deco street of leather workshops, made-to-measure tailors and shoe shops running between Boulevard Mohammed V and Place des Nations Unies. Most stay open until 20:00 and stock Moroccan-tanned bags at fixed prices.
Casablanca's mainstream shopping quarter mixes Moroccan labels and European chains along Rue Jean Jaurès, while Marché Maarif behind it sells cheese, cut flowers and imported groceries in a tiled 1930s hall.
A terraced bakery-brasserie on the Anfa artery where the Racine shopping crowd stops between boutiques. Salads, quiches and Moroccan-flour breads; the counter also sells boxed patisserie that travels well in hand luggage.
Galerie 38 on Rue Al Yamama shows contemporary Moroccan painters and photographers, with smaller design and framing studios along the surrounding Racine blocks. Works are sold outright and galleries handle export paperwork.
The largest mall in Africa when it opened in 2011, set at the Atlantic end of Ain Diab with 350-plus stores, a cylindrical aquarium and a souk-styled wing selling Moroccan crafts at fixed, labelled prices.
A 1930s French-built medina of arcaded lanes selling carpets, brassware, cedar boxes, kaftans and olives. Librairie Ahmed Attar stocks Arabic and French books; the carpet dealers unroll stock on the pavement from about 10:00.
A tiny tiled shop trading since 1930, famous across Morocco for cornes de gazelle, ghriba and almond briouats sold by weight from wooden trays. Everything is boxed in the shop's own card cartons for carrying home.
The gift shop of a private museum in a 1940s villa, selling reproductions of the collection's vintage Moroccan travel posters, Art Deco postcards and jewellery-inspired pieces. Museum entry is separate and the shop is open to all.
A glass-fronted waterfront centre north of the medina with Moroccan and international labels, a supermarket for pantry souvenirs like ras el hanout and amlou, and terraces facing the harbour and the mosque minaret.