Shops are real estate specially used for business activities, and are places where operators provide commodity transactions, services and experiences to consumers. Broadly speaking, the concept of shops includes not only retail business, but also real estate used for entertainment, catering and tourism, profitable exhibition halls, stadiums, bathrooms, and commercial business trading places with physical buildings such as banks and securities.

Shops are trading places, from department stores, supermarkets, specialty stores to automobile sales stores.