Best Place to Shop

[The Arboretum]707 NE Fremont St., 517-3786.This enormous bright-green "neighborhood resale store" opened in 2005 with a high-quality selection of clothing, furniture, books and assorted used goods, and became an immediate success. Browse the aisles for oddities you didn't know you needed, or try your luck selling your excess stuff. It's affordable, eco-friendly and all-American!

Runner-up: Mimi and Lena

The ReBuilding Center

[Baristaville]3625 N Mississippi Ave., 331-1877.The building on North Mississippi Avenue offers everything you'll need to build a house from scratch, including lumber, cabinets, lighting, plumbing, doors, windows, sinks, tubs, carpets and even furnaces.

Runner-up: Pin Me Apparel/Flutter (tie)

AM Living

[Central City]600 SW 10th Ave., 546-8803.A trip to this airy shop is like visiting a rich, eccentric uncle: curios abound. The AM stands for "Authentic Models," but you'll find more than just ship replicas here: Unfamiliar seashells fight for shelf space with elaborate kaleidoscopes and jeweled globes. Bring your kids! They'll groove on the adventure-themed temporary tattoos, paper airplane kits and even a do-it-yourself treasure map.

Runner-up:Buffalo Exchange

Powell's City of Books

[El Dorado]1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651.

No surprise here. Powell's can suck you dry like a Shop-Vac if you aren't careful. And it's not that the books are pricey—it's the sheer volume of their selection. You walk in and want it all, just like the fat kid in Willy Wonka. Think about it. (WH)

Runner-up:Bubble Boutique

Rock n' Rose

[The Inseam]616 E Burnside St., 239-3901.The out-there prices for mack-daddy duds will have you saying, "Gag with me a spoon," but the selection of retro faves ('70s to early '00s) at this incredibly clean vintage boutique will have you wetting your plaid pants with sheer excitement.

Runner-up: Chantiques

Multnomah Village

[Neglected Southwest]Southwest Capitol Highway between Southwest 31st and 37th avenues.

Multnomah Village is so cute it's criminal. The stretch of Capitol Highway lined with coffee shops, cafes and quirky stores looks like it's been plucked from a small European town and planted in Southwest Portland. Spending an afternoon perusing Multnomah's shops, then stopping for a pint at one of the neighborhood restaurants is perfect for first dates, families and everyone in between.p>Runner-up: Annie Bloom's Books

Mabel and Zora

[The New Frontier]1468 NE Alberta St., 335-6169.It's hard to get out of this mod boutique in under an hour. Each item has a feminine, original edge—the woman who shops at Mabel and Zora wants to look unique and cute at the same time.

Runner-up:Tumbleweed

Fubonn

[The Outer Limits]2850 SE 82nd Ave., 517-8877.

Endless are the wonders of Michael Liu's East Asian shopping center: 50-pound bags of rice, cannonballs of fermented tea, alarmingly cheap banh-mi sandwiches, hundreds of varieties of frozen fish balls, beverages from aloe to pennywort and beyond, pork logs, ancestor candles, all sorts of agar, marble statues, durian fruit, yam jam, shredded squid...we could go on all day.

Runner-up:Clackamas Town Center

Greg's Flea Market

[The Peninsula]8214 N Lombard St., 289-7510.Nordy's Rack be damned. Nestled within pissing distance of the St. Johns Pub and out-of-the-way kitsch emporium Greg's, this randomly recurring NoPo parking lot sale of odd and unusual items—everything from offbeat vintage housewares to otherworldly-looking plants—has yet to happen this season. Let's hope that changes now that they've beat everyone else for the best place to shop.

Runner-up: St. Johns Booksellers

Powell's on Hawthorne

[The People's Republic]3747 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651.What makes this better for our Southeastern readers than the mega-Powell's on Burnside might just be location or it might just be general manageability. But my suspicion is this: It's the sterling music selection pumped out by the baristas at the adjoining Fresh Pot coffee shop. It doesn't make me want to read, but it certainly makes me want to donate money to the cause.

Runner-up:The Red Light Clothing Exchange

New Seasons Market

[Sellwoodstockland]1214 SE Tacoma St., 230-4949.The produce is photogenic; the customer service can't be beat, but any New Seasons veteran knows that the best things about these friendly grocery stores are the free samples. Once you've got the hang of cruising the sample tables—first bread and cheese, then beer or wine, and finally the main course (perhaps a cold macaroni salad or a creamy spinach dip with pita)—you can effectively kill two birds with one stone: lunch and a grocery run.

Runner-up:Stars Antique Mall

(TIE) Hollywood Farmers Market

[Siberia]Northeast Hancock Street between 44th and 45th avenues.

Northeast Portland's Saturday-morning market reproduces in miniature much of what we love about the downtown farmers market without the crushing summertime crowds of 10,000 shoppers. Here you'll find Deep Roots Farm, Packer Orchards, Winter Green Farm, Gilson Marine Farms, Sweet Briar Farms pork, Alsea Acres cheese, Hacienda Micro-Mercantes tamales, Nossa Familia coffee, and Fleur De Lis and Gabriel's bakeries, along with dozens of other vendors, all within a few blocks of a Trader Joe's and a Grocery Outlet.

(TIE) Cosmic Monkey Comics

[Siberia]5335 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-9050.

You people are really representing for comic books! Cosmic Monkey celebrates every incarnation of the medium from manga to Peanuts reprints, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a more inclusive comic shop. Truly a something-for-everybody type place, whether you're a big nerd, big kid, art snob or lowlife. Read on!

WWeek 2015