Typical stores in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Amsterdam has been a shopper's paradise since the Dutch Golden Age. Below you'll find an overview of the most well-known stores of Amsterdam and the Netherlands.
HEMA
http://www.hema.nl/ 
Dutch department store with favourable prices that offers everything from homeware to clothing, office supplies to sausages (rookworst). The Hema is Holland's best kept secret. It is how most Dutch people would like to see themselves. It is reasonable, easygoing, fair, thrifty and classless, based on rationality and clarity. The Hema prides itself on brining high standards of design to a mass public. And to a large degree it succeeds.
ALBERT HEIJN
http://www.ah.nl/
XENOS
http://www.xenos.nl/
KRUIDVAT
http://www.kruidvat.nl/
BLOKKER
http://www.blokker.nl/
586 stores in the Netherlands
DE BIJENKORF
http://www.bijenkorf.nl/
VROOM & DREESMANN (V&D)
http://www.vd.nl/
C&A
FEBO
http://www.febo.nl/
A fast food chain of automatiek restaurants, where you can buy snacks, like kroket or frikandel, from a wall-mounted vending machine. Make sure you've got some coins on you.
about 75 shops in Amsterdam
are at least 100 years old
Albert Cuyp Market
Amsterdam's best daily market for everything
Must-see shopping in the Kalverstraat, the busiest shopping street of Amsterdam
Fun Shopping
An alternative route through the Jordaan, an old working-class district which is known for its narrow streets and canals, along which you will find many tiny specialised shops, as well as pubs and restaurants.