Nice shopping splits three ways: the covered and open-air markets of Vieux-Nice, the boutique grid around Rue Paradis and Le Port's antiques quarter, and the artisan producers still making socca pans, savon de Marseille and fruits confits inside the city.
The flower half of the Cours Saleya market runs Tue–Sat 06:00–17:30 and Sunday mornings, with mimosa, ranunculus and Grasse-grown roses beside stalls of Menton lemons, socca flour and barrels of Nyons olives. Bunches from €8; a kilo of olives around €14.
Nicolas Alziari has pressed olive oil here since 1868 and still sells it in the blue-and-yellow tins that are the city's most recognisable souvenir. Half-litre tin around €13, the 5-litre bidon near €90, plus tapenade, olive-wood spoons and their own soaps.
A working candied-fruit and crystallised-flower factory on the quayside with free 20-minute guided visits, roughly 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:30. Boxes of fruits confits, violet petals and chocolate-covered orange peel start around €9.
A tiny Vieux-Nice workshop cutting and stamping soap blocks on site — olive-oil savon de Marseille cubes, lavender and verbena bars, and shaving soaps in olive-wood bowls. Bars from €4.50, gift sets around €18.
Nice's luxury grid between Avenue de Verdun and Rue Masséna: Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Dior on Rue Paradis, with more wearable French labels — Sandro, Maje, ba&sh — on Rue Alphonse Karr. Most open 10:00–19:00, closed Sunday.
The department store anchoring Place Masséna, with beauty and French designer floors plus a détaxe desk on site for non-EU visitors reclaiming the roughly 12% VAT refund on purchases over €100 in a single day.
The lanes behind the Palais de la Préfecture hold Nice's ceramic trade: Vallauris-style glazed bowls, olive-wood boards and the flat copper socca pans locals cook on. Small bowls €12-20, a genuine tinned-copper pan €60-120.
The Port district's dealer streets sell Riviera estate stock — 1950s Cannes glassware, Provençal linens, brass barometers and old Nice postcards — in shops that keep afternoon-only hours and cluster near Place Garibaldi's arcades.
The city's real food market, Tue–Sun mornings roughly 06:00–13:30 along the tram line north of the station — fishmongers, Ligurian pasta makers, cheese vans and a fraction of the tourist pricing of Cours Saleya.
Second-hand and specialist shops along Boulevard Jean Jaurès stock Riviera photography books, Nissart-language dictionaries and old Côte d'Azur travel posters — reprints from €15, original 1930s PLM railway posters far higher.
Confectioners since 1820 in a rococo shop opposite the Opéra, selling candied clementines, chocolate-dipped orange peel and glacé fruit in gold-lettered boxes. Small boxes around €14, the large assortments €40 and up. Closed Sunday and Monday.
A cellar dating to 1860 stocking Bellet — the tiny AOC grown on the hills inside Nice's own city limits, barely 60 hectares and rarely exported. Bottles from Château de Crémat and Clos Saint-Vincent run €25-45.