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Here at Racked, we're dedicating this week to the kind of fantastical shopping that most of us only get to experience in dreams (or at 80%-off sample sales). Taking a page from casino parlance, we'll be talking a lot about "whales," those big spenders who feel perfectly comfortable dropping tens of thousands of dollars every night on roulette, or, in our case, on Cartier. Welcome to Whale Week 2013.

If you had a kajillion dollars in the bank and you just wanted to say screw it and go live on an island in the Bahamas, where would you go to most efficiently achieve such a feat, and have quite a nice experience in the process? We're glad you asked.

Here are 13 shopping spots in San Francisco that will help you out. Even if you don't want to completely drain your funds, but would like to acquire some high quality, fancy clothes, jewelry and accessories, these are great places to start. They're the go-to shops for when you want your purchases to become heirlooms. Unsurprisingly, it's extremely easy to spend a fortune in the City by the Bay.

Shopping elsewhere? Check out our guides to the best luxury stores in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.