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Bargain Shopping Melbourne – factory outlets & discount shops

If you want to go bargain shopping Melbourne is famous for its direct factory outlets and whole streets dedicated to clearance warehouses.

You can pick up brands and labels at great discounts – for any style and wallet size.

Whether you are after chocolates, clothing, leather goods, accessories, shoes or souvenirs, you don’t have to pay full price if you know where to look.

Bridge Road, Richmond

This is an established Melbourne discount shopping strip, well known by locals and visitors.

Here retail stores have warehouses selling their shoes, clothing and accessories at clearance prices.

Bridge Road also has atmosphere and is a great place for lunch or coffee. You get there on the #48 and #75 trams from Flinders Street.

Smith Street, Collingwood

This is where to go for sports and outdoor gear. You can get great bargains on brand running shoes and fashionable street and gym wear, as well as outdoor clothing.

And mixed in with these are various fashion shops, where you may come across some other bargain. It is on the #86 tram from the city.

Sydney Road, Brunswick

The Sydney Road shopping strip stretches from Brunswick Street right up into Coburg – in fact it is Melbourne’s longest continuous shopping strip, about 4.5km long.

There is a string of discount shops and factory outlets along Sydney Road. However, they are not all in one area and you will need to hop on and off a tram to explore it all.

This area has a great mix of ethnic and alternative people, and you will find wonderful multicultural supermarkets, cafes and pubs. Get there on the #19 tram from the city.

Direct factory outlets

DFO, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne shopping

DFO, Direct Factory Outlets, are a great place to go. There are three outlets in Melbourne and each has around 100 factory outlet stores of most major brands, all at great discounts. There is a DFO in Cheltenham, one in Essendon on the way to the airport, and one right in the cbd Melboune at Spencer Street Station.

Brand Smart Factory Mall is another great factory clearance outlet with over 48 factory discount stores for fashion, accessories, home wares, kids clothing and food stores, including great names such as Jigsaw, Polo Ralph Lauren & Calvin Klein. It is at 286 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading. It is only a 200m walk up Springvale Road from Nunawading Station.

High Street

High Street, which stretches through Northcote, Thornbury and Preston is another long shopping road with various factory outlets along the way.

In the upper end of Northcote, you find discount groceries and electrical stores. Further up in Preston are great places for sports shoes, bedding and furniture.

Preston Markets is also a great place for a discount on just about anything. Similarly, there are the other Melbourne markets such as the South Melbourne Market, Queen Victoria markets and Prahran market that also have great discount clothes, leather and goods.

Melbourne Shopping Tours

There are various tours that take you around the factory outlets of Melbourne if you don’t have time to explore them on your own.

If you are after a bargain, discount shopping Melbourne boasts such wide range of brand clearance outlets that you wonder why you would ever pay full price again.

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