Renovation project - Shopping in France
This is a slightly different post today, I have just been shopping and
am still amazed at times at the cost and variety of things in France and the
complete difference in attitude to shops from what we are used to in the UK.
The first example is the wine; always a fabulous bargain in France but
this is unbelievable, 6 bottles of very drinkable Rose wine for 9.95 Euros.
And when the mussels were available you could get 2 kilos of fresh
mussels for 5.99 Euros.
Fabulous prices and there are so many other things that are just
amazing, but then we go to the other extreme.
An example is the chocolate Christmas advent calendars have now been
reduced to 70% discount, we are almost in June!!!!!!
This is the earliest I have seen the Easter range reduced (after all Easter
was only a couple of months ago!)
This is something that I will always love about my little bit of France,
the Christmas items are not reduced after Christmas never mind before Christmas
and it is considered perfectly normal.
The staff in the shops also have quite a different attitude, they will
not think twice about leaving the till to tend to another matter or chatting to
the person in the queue, this is just the friendliness that is here, but don’t
be fully fooled, if its busy and another till is opened, there will be a
stampede!
Is there any thing that you love about shopping in France or would like to see?
Shopping in France... the awesome choice in supermarkets bigger than football pitches. I'm not allowed to go shopping anymore.... I'll have that one, that one, that one oooh and that one lol. Hope you guys are ok x
ReplyDeleteha ha I can understand that, the array of cheese and wine is just wonderful. we are great thanks :) x
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