Chiado is Bairro Alto's slightly more refined adjunct, with more conventional shopping and proper hotels.
"Once you had been there, there was never any going back to conventional shopping," she lamented.
Most music download sites work like conventional shopping sites, offering set prices for different tracks and albums.
The hiring of Mr. Browett puzzled some analysts, in part because Dixons provides the kind of conventional shopping environment that Apple has avoided with its own stores.
Dumbo Joins The Big Guys UNTIL now, Dumbo was a detour from the conventional shopping itineraries of the home design crowd.
After he launched his flatpack furniture ("obviously predating Ikea very considerably") he found that conventional shops had no idea how to present it and sell it.
Amazon's management prefers to avoid the debate, though its "Our Planet" portal points to a Scottish University study that suggests online shopping is an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional shopping.
But Mr Caruso also claims, more boldly, that his creations are more "real" and authentic than conventional shopping centres.It is an odd claim for a man whose signature style is a mish-mash of two continents' and several centuries' worth of architectural traditions.
With nearly 1,700 outlets, mostly on conventional shopping streets, the firm depends overwhelmingly on people going out to the shops.
