A key to the pace of the places are the Supermarkets that open all week at Trafalgar Square, Queensway, Strand, South Kensington, Fulham and Kings Road. Services range enormously with deliveries available in major stores and many shops, depending on cost, size, location and the business concerned. Mail order is possible in the larger stores and specialist shops like Hatchards, where books are mailed worldwide. All the main credit and charge cards are usually acceptable wherever you go, as are cheques with guarantee cards. Exchanges of clothing can often be agreed.
Market stalls tend to take cash only.
When returning home via Heathrow or Gatwick airports, you can reclaim at the VAT Refund Counter, but be prepared, as they may want to see the goods and queues can be long at times. London is an exciting, liberal city full of atmosphere, where anything goes - a shoppers paradise steeped in a history that blends its traditional and modern lifestyles with international influences and cultures. Nation of Shopkeepers thrives and London today would fund his armies from the small change ringing in the tills.