Final Fantasy VIII shops

The following is a list of shops available in Final Fantasy VIII. The game has a general shop used in many shop fronts that always sells the same basic items. In addition to the general store, there are some unique shops that sells special items. The support ability Familiar is needed for some items to become available, and the Haggle and Sell High support abilities can be used to modify the shops' prices. The Call Shop menu ability can be used to access shops from the menu; this is especially useful beyond the point of no return when the towns are no longer accessible, although if the player can reach Ragnarok they can find a shop there.

weapons are modified in Junk Shops and require items to be used in lieu of gil to make.

Unlike most previous Final Fantasy games, the shop buildings don't have interiors in Final Fantasy VIII; entering a shop just opens the shop menu.

General Store
The general store is the basic shop in the game that can be accessed via various points: Balamb Garden training center (CC Joker appears randomly in the righthand screen of the area), Balamb Town train station, Timber item store, Dollet town square, Deling City shopping arcade, D-District Prison Floor 8, Fishermans Horizon and downtown Winhill. In the time compressed world, CC Joker will sell items from the general store aboard the Ragnarok. There also exists a dummied general shop, called Trabia Shop, with the same items.

The shop in Winhill can also be used as Laguna; in fact, Laguna's pool of gil is independent of the money the main party has, and thus the only use of Laguna's money is to use it in the shop, as the player can still get the items to the main inventory and use them as the main party.

Timber
Timber's item store is a general store, but the other shops have unique items. The souvenir shop cannot actually be used to buy anything, as everything but the "naughty magazine" is out of stock and the party is not of age to purchase one. During an event, the player can also buy a drink from the pub to the drunk man to get past.

Esthar City
Esthar City has a shopping arcade where the shops can be accessed via a computer terminal. These shops have the game's best stock, but some are initially closed. Shops can yield items randomly when the player tries to access them. Don Juan's Shop is a junk shop.


 *  - Items only appear with the Familiar ability.

Cheryl's Store
The shop is always closed. The player may receive a Rosetta Stone for trying to access it.