Stores

Many retail stores in malls and strip malls use simplex radios to conduct their business. In a busy shopping district making sense of all the frequencies heard on a scanner can be confusing. For a detailed guide to scanning stores and shopping centers, see this page.

Some but not all store frequencies in use are FCC licensed (either national, regional or local licenses). Fortunately, mainly retail stores use the same frequency/tone combinations nationwide. Scanning known common frequencies/tones will help identify these same stores when you are in their vicinity. Sources for the list below include frequencies found on Radioreference.com and other regional frequency pages and scanner forums.

NOTE: the letters after a store's name are simply present to distinguish which frequency you are hearing when the scanner stops on that channel. Only when there are numbers in the description do they actually denote channel numbers.