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2025 summer sales begin in France: end dates and rules
Shops can sell products at a loss… but must follow certain other guidelines
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Glass bottle return scheme offering refunds launches in French supermarkets
Trial will run for 18 months in north and west France with customers seeing 10c or 20c deposit returned for bringing back empty glass items
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Has butter become a luxury in France?
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New shops for Champs-Elysées
Department store Galéries Lafayette will open a new ‘shop window’ on the Champs-Elysées in early 2019 as more shops move in to lure visitors from nearby Rue du Faubourg St Honoré.

At No52, it has Tiffany’s next door and Nike across at No79 in its largest store in Europe. This will include a basketball court but the So Sofitel hotel at No150 will have a 25m rooftop pool, with a view on the Arc de Triomphe. Lord Foster is designing Apple’s €50million shop at No114.