The shops range from clothing like Banana Republic to antique jewelry. It's beautiful to walk around with the canals and gondolas and painted blue skies on the ceiling. Gondolas breeze by down the canal with gondoliers singing Italian songs. It is even better since it is connected to the shops at the Palazzo. The storefronts also have that Venice theme.
There is a pretty good range of stores, its not all upscale stores like the Shoppes at the Palazzo.
I would say to walk around these shops simply for the atmosphere. ^_^*~