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=Shop=

Shops are useful locations that have appeared in every installment of the Zelda series except for The Adventure of Link. They sell a large variety of items or equipment that Link can purchase, often in exchange for Rupees (although there are some notable exceptions). There are many different types of shop, and the goods that they sell tend to differ depending on these types.

2D Era
In The Legend of Zelda, Merchants are hidden across the overworld, often concealed behind bombable walls or underneath Armos Statues. They mainly sell items such as Bombs, Recovery Hearts and Keys, but also sell more important items such as the Blue Candle, Bait and the Blue Ring. The items available for purchase differ between each merchant, as well as the items' prices. In addition to merchants, Old Women can also be found scattered across Hyrule, hidden in a similar manner. If Link obtains the Letter from the Old Man in a cave in northeast Hyrule, various Old Women will start to sell Life Potion and 2nd Potion.

In A Link to the Past, the shop system became a lot more complex, introducing different types of shop that specified in particular types of items. For example, the Magic Shop, which only sells Potions, and the Dark World Shield Shop, which only sells Shields. However, a few shops still retained the same style as the ones run by the merchants in the first game. The game also introduced the concept of selling items; Link is able to sell Golden Bees to the Bottle Merchant for 100 Rupees each.

Although having almost the exact same shop system as in A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening did introduce Thievery. This allowed Link to get any item for free by stealing it from the Town Tool Shop, but if he entered the shop again, the shopkeeper would kill him. This idea was only ever used again in Twilight Princess, in which Link is able to steal from Trill's Shop.

3D Era
As in A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time included multiple shops that each sold different items.

General Shop
General shops are the most common variety of shop in the Zelda series, appearing since the very first game. They sell common items at relatively low prices, such as Arrows, Recovery Hearts, Deku Seeds, etc. They appear quite freqently, and more than one can often be found in each game. They sometimes sell different items depending on the stage of the game that Link can first visit them. For example, in Ocarina of Time the Kokiri Shop sells Deku Shields whereas the Bazaar sells Hylian Shields, due to its later appearance in the game.

Bomb Shop
First appearing in A Link to the Past, bomb shops, as the name suggests, specialise in Bombs, often selling bunches of them in different quantities. They are often located in highly populated areas such as Kakariko Village, Hyrule Castle Town and Windfall Island.

Potion Shop
Making their debut in The Legend of Zelda, Potion Shops are shops that specialise in potions, or in some cases, other items that can be carried in Bottles, such as Fairies.