Live Shop Webcams

Shop webcams show stores, market halls, shopping streets and malls. Some are installed by the shops themselves and look at the entrance or the street outside; others watch a busy pedestrian street lined with shop windows.

Shopping streets are a good measure of a city's pulse. The frame shows shutters going up in the morning, deliveries before opening time, the lunchtime crowd and the evening rush — and how busy a street really is before heading there. Markets bring their own spectacle: stalls set up at dawn, piles of fruit and fish, and the clean-up when trading ends.

The retail calendar sets the rhythm. Sales and the weeks before Christmas bring the biggest crowds and decorated windows; Sundays and public holidays leave many streets almost empty where shops close, and summer evenings in resort towns keep them open late. At night shop windows often stay lit, so these streets look lively even when nobody is about.