factory outlets
Lahti has several good factory outlets. For clothing Finnkarelia Outlet in Hollola and Luhta Outlet in Lahti are good places to visit. Maria Drockila's candle factory in Orimattila's old spinnig mill is also worth a visit.
shopping centers
Lahti has several big shopping centers. One of them is Trio (http://www.trio.fi) at Aleksanterinkatu 20. There are over 90 shops, in 3 floors.
Sokos shopping center (http://www.sokos.fi) at Aleksanterinkatu 19-21. It's a big center with 3 floors and a basement floor. The three upper floors are filled with shoes, clothes, toys, electronics, dishes, games, movies and everything that you need in your household. In the basement, there's a S-Market grocery store, which has a store in almost every city in Finland.
Outside of the town LAUNE is a large commercial area filled with large hypermarkets, electronic and car stores.
Liike shopping center is near the city centre. Mail order business Anttila (http://www.anttila.fi) has a big 2-floor store there, which sells nearly everything found in the catalog. There are also several smaller shops, a cafe and a sports shop InterSport.
Shopping center Syke is located just opposite of Liike, Kauppakatu 18. Unlike Liike, which has a few shops. Syke has many shops, S-Market, which sells household products and food, Clas Ohlson (http://www.clasohlson.fi), which sells electronics and household products, Emotion, which sells cosmetics and womens lingerie, TOP Sport, which sells sport equipment.
Just by walking around in the city centre you can find stores that sell almost anything everything from buttons to cars.
A new shopping center Karisma (http://www.kauppakeskuska...) is situated about 5 km's east from the city center, beside the E75 motorway. It has nearly 80 shops.