User blog comment:The Crimson Eagle/Run-down of AC3/@comment-5088097-20121202185509/@comment-5088097-20121202185953

Free-running - Has been simplified and is astonishingly easier to use

*IMPORTANT* 

There are no longer, Tailers, Blacksmiths, Doctors, Banks, etc.

If you want to purchase something, go to Boston or New York and look for this icon: £ on the map, it will read out "General Store", you can go there to sell your pelts from skinned animals or purchase items for use in-game as well dying your robes and buying maps so you can find feathers and treasure, etc.