Kragerø's Late-night Shopping Carnival offers special bargains and is the high spot of summertime shopping, with bargain-hunters crowding the shops from early morning until midnight.
Telemark's only specialist and deservedly celebrated butcher's shop is located in Kragerø. Brødrene Brubakken (the Brubakken brothers) produce more than 30 different varieties of sausages, each with a flavour that cannot be matched anywhere else in the country.
Kragerø also has a first-class fishmonger, naturally enough, with a shop on the inner harbour wharf. Live lobsters and cod can be chosen from an indoor tank. And what is a more typical summer delight than sitting on the wharf and eating freshly fried fishcakes right out of the bag?
Two shopping centres housing grocery and chain stores are located outside town, Volum in Sannidal and Kalstad.