Rouen shops the way it builds: layered. Hand-painted faïence workshops sit under 15th-century beams on Rue Saint-Romain, antique dealers line Rue Damiette, and the Vieux-Marché halls stack Neufchâtel and Calvados six days a week.
The covered market under the sweeping slate roof of the Joan of Arc church complex runs Tuesday–Sunday, roughly 07:30–19:30 (Sunday to 13:00). Around 20 stalls: Neufchâtel hearts, Isigny butter, Dieppe scallops, farm cider.
Rouen's biggest open-air market fills Place Saint-Marc on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday mornings until about 13:30, mixing produce and Norman farm stalls with a brocante fringe of tools, linen and old postcards.
The last working faïence atelier in central Rouen, painting the blue-and-ochre 'rouennais' patterns by hand since the 18th-century revival. Watch the decorators through the back-room door, then buy signed pieces off the shelf.
A run of antiquaires and brocanteurs along two of the most crooked half-timbered lanes in Normandy: 19th-century Rouen faïence, copper pans, marine charts and Norman armoires. Most open 14:00–19:00, closed Monday.
Rouen's independent fashion spine, named for the medieval glovemakers. Concept stores, Scandinavian-leaning homeware and French labels occupy timbered shopfronts; almost everything opens 10:00–19:00 and shuts Sunday and Monday morning.
A compact covered galerie behind the Palais de Justice with around 30 mid-range shops on two levels, plus a terrace of cafés. Useful for rain days and for the underground car park directly beneath the old town.
The scruffier, cheaper end of Rouen retail west of the Vieux-Marché: vintage clothing, second-hand vinyl, tattoo studios, small ceramicists and épiceries. Shops open late morning and trade through to 19:00.
A converted riverside warehouse on the right bank of the Seine, now 90-plus stores over three levels with big glazed views of the water and the Flaubert bridge. Trades Monday–Saturday until 20:00.
Home of the Larmes de Jeanne d'Arc — roasted almonds in chocolate dusted to look like ash, created in 1961 and still Rouen's signature edible souvenir. Boxes are sealed and travel well for weeks.
An independent bookshop of long standing near Place de la Cathédrale, strong on Normandy history, Flaubert, Monet's Rouen series and illustrated regional cookbooks — several in English translation on the ground floor.
The left-bank mall Rouennais actually use: a hypermarket plus around 100 shops, open Monday–Saturday to 20:00. The food hall is the cheapest place in the city to stock Calvados, cider and Pont-l'Évêque.
The museum shop on Esplanade Marcel-Duchamp sells Monet cathedral-series prints, Rouen faïence reproductions and design objects from the ceramics collection — no ticket needed to browse the boutique itself.