Open for Business

Face it: Shopping in Little Rock no longer sucks. Shop Girl recalls the day she moved to Arkansas, apprehensive about being 300 miles from a Crate & Barrel. She still is, but with the Capitol City now sporting a Container Store, Pottery Barn and soon-to-open J. Crew, life is a little sunnier. Shop Girl is finally able to throw out her five remaining Prozac pills and rely on the anti-depressant that is retail therapy. She knows you’ve been indulging, as well.

With an abundance of opportunities to drop cash on luxury goods in Little Rock, Arkies need a tour guide. Shop Girl and her comrades hope to save you valuable time scouring the racks at Heights and Hillcrest boutiques, let you in on which stores are vending the hottest magazine and talk show finds and maybe even whisper a few trade secrets to score you savings.

So haul out your trendy, reusable shopping bags, peeps. It’s time to rock the shops.