Kismet, there is a Champion Supermarket at the corner of rues de Seine and Buci. The rotisserie chickens outside either are sold there or by the sopecialty butcher next door. I've never figured out who they belong to! An excellent cheese shop is across the street on Seine and a Nicolas next door on Buci. There is a Monoprix near the intersection of rue Bonaparte and Blvd St Germain. There is also a Picard neaby

Note: the Champion name is disappearing slowly but surely as the owner rebrands the stores "Carrefour Market."

Schnauzer, the real place to shop not far away would be down at Jules Joffrin on rue du Poteau.

Kerouac, being pedantic here, but Franprix and Leaderprice (among others) are part of the Casino group, which co-owns Monoprix (50/50) with the Galeries Lafayette group.

Ditto swandav.

Yes, I know that, hanl. Here's another factoid: Franprix was actually owned by Beatrice Foods for a few years in the 1980's when Beatrice was the largest black-owned company in the U.S. It was probably one of the strategic errors that caused the demise of Beatrice Foods, because they really had no idea how to run a Parisian supermarket chain and you should have seen some of the weird products that showed up in the stores for a few years.

On the subject of Franprix, when we were in Paris in March, the only place we encountered a problem with using our Visa credit card was in the Franprix store in the rue de la Cerisaie. The cashier would not accept it, saying that it was their policy not to accept cards with a magnetic strip. When I explained that we had been using the card extensively, she summoned a man who confirmed that it was indeed their policy. Could this be true of all Franprix stores, or perhaps just this one location?

I would say it is that one location. It means they got screwed by someone with a stolen foreign card once and didn't think to check the signature. The Chinese supermarket in my neighborhood also refuses non-chip cards.

This is not technically "illegal" but it is contrary to the Visa/MasterCard contract that these stores signed.

Thanks for those pics, kerouac . . . almost as good as taking a stroll down the street myself!
And a lovely reminder of my times in Paris - thanks to all the little hints from Fodorites, I can safely return many times and still look out for different sights each time.
Happy travels, Di

kerouac,
How long does it take to walk along Seine from Notre Dame to
Musee d'Orsay? and from Pont Alma to Eiffel Tower?
Can you walk along the river the whole time?

thanks

Hi jet,

Go to www.viamicelin.com, www.mappy.com and www.maps.google.com. Thake the average of the three.

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Kerouac,

Thanks for sharing - sometimes the 18th gets a bad reputation for being too touristy and some/most tourists only see the Sacre Couer, Place du Tertre, and Pigalle area but having lived there back in '06 (if only for a short while) I found some of my favorite streets and places in Paris in the 18th. This brought back memories.

Thanks Avalon, I have been to the Monoprix near Rue Bonaparte. THe rotissery chicken and the frites sound good at this moment..:)

I always remember the first time That I visited Montmartre and the SacreCoeur..I felt so Bohemienne and could Pictures the struggling artists,the painters living in a cold attic doing their stuff.
Of course I was only 18 years old and was extremely lucky to spend a month in Paris at my Aunt Home.

Those are not very long walks, jetsetj, and you can stay along the river the whole way.