Supermarkets open on Sunday in Paris?
Mar 11th, 2008, 09:55 AM
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This post answered a question I was about to ask! Our Sunday arrival is on the 30th, which is also when Europe switches over to Daylight Savings, which means we are unlikely to make it to the Champion at Buci & Seine by 13:00.
It is great to know about the Franprix on Rue de Sevres, Kerouac - Thanks!! I missed that one and we were going to just get necessities at a local Arab store.
Elyang, its about 20 minutes on the Metro each way to the Franprix for you. The Franprix is right near the Vaneau Metro stop. Go to www.franprix.fr , then click on "magasins" in the upper right, then enter "105 rue de sevres, paris" in the address, and you'll see the stores in that area, including the Rue de Sevres store. Click on each store and the hours and address pop up.
Timely thread. Thanks, guys.
It is great to know about the Franprix on Rue de Sevres, Kerouac - Thanks!! I missed that one and we were going to just get necessities at a local Arab store.
Elyang, its about 20 minutes on the Metro each way to the Franprix for you. The Franprix is right near the Vaneau Metro stop. Go to www.franprix.fr , then click on "magasins" in the upper right, then enter "105 rue de sevres, paris" in the address, and you'll see the stores in that area, including the Rue de Sevres store. Click on each store and the hours and address pop up.
Timely thread. Thanks, guys.
Mar 11th, 2008, 10:58 AM
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Thanks again. You are all so helpful. I will try to bring as much as possible, but having two elderly persons in the party, and having to walk from the metro station to the apartment, I really would like to have the minimum in the luggage.
The Franprix on rue de sevres is not too far from our apartment. We can just walk leisurely there in the afternoon and take the metro back.
Thank you!
Ellen
The Franprix on rue de sevres is not too far from our apartment. We can just walk leisurely there in the afternoon and take the metro back.
Thank you!
Ellen
Mar 11th, 2008, 10:59 AM
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Okay, first the Sunday rule:
Food stores can be open 6 days a week. They must close one day, not necessarily Sunday, or they must close 2 half days, which is becoming more common.
As for the Arab or Asian grocers, they can be open 24/7 if they want, because any commerce with no employees can be open whenever it wants. These are supposedly "family" operations and everybody who works there is a member of the family ("I'm helping my uncle." Yeah, sure.). This is the same gimmick that was used by the clothing stores in the Marais before they were decreed to be one of the various 7-day "tourist" zones of the city.
The Franprix website might be the best one to use to find local supermarkets open on Sunday. Just start by typing a postal code in the store finder, like 75001 for the 1st arrondissement. This brings up a map showing all of the local Franprix stores. You can drag and pull it to show other parts of the city. When you click on the Franprix logos, they give the store days and hours. "Fermé le dimanche" means "closed on Sunday."
Food stores can be open 6 days a week. They must close one day, not necessarily Sunday, or they must close 2 half days, which is becoming more common.
As for the Arab or Asian grocers, they can be open 24/7 if they want, because any commerce with no employees can be open whenever it wants. These are supposedly "family" operations and everybody who works there is a member of the family ("I'm helping my uncle." Yeah, sure.). This is the same gimmick that was used by the clothing stores in the Marais before they were decreed to be one of the various 7-day "tourist" zones of the city.
The Franprix website might be the best one to use to find local supermarkets open on Sunday. Just start by typing a postal code in the store finder, like 75001 for the 1st arrondissement. This brings up a map showing all of the local Franprix stores. You can drag and pull it to show other parts of the city. When you click on the Franprix logos, they give the store days and hours. "Fermé le dimanche" means "closed on Sunday."
Mar 11th, 2008, 11:16 AM
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Thanks Kerouac
about the law - you say and i'm not doubting you that stores could be open on Sunday if they say close another day
Why would not the huge hypermarches not then open on Sundays and close say on Mondays - figuring they would boom on Sundays when folks have all day to shop?
Or is it the recalictrance of the unions that prevents this?
Or am i just wrong in my assumption that Sundays would be busier than Mondays
Interesting however that it's not Sunday they must close
about the law - you say and i'm not doubting you that stores could be open on Sunday if they say close another day
Why would not the huge hypermarches not then open on Sundays and close say on Mondays - figuring they would boom on Sundays when folks have all day to shop?
Or is it the recalictrance of the unions that prevents this?
Or am i just wrong in my assumption that Sundays would be busier than Mondays
Interesting however that it's not Sunday they must close
Mar 11th, 2008, 12:47 PM
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They are - the Carrefours, LeClerc's, Auchans of the French world however open on Sundays prior to Christmas
and i've been in the one near where i stay often and it booms on Sundays then - and i think it would not too
Family Sunday meals, once sacrosanct seem to be going the way of church going - nil. But my relatives some do express a need for Sunday to be a family day even though it rarely worksout that way it seems
and i've been in the one near where i stay often and it booms on Sundays then - and i think it would not too
Family Sunday meals, once sacrosanct seem to be going the way of church going - nil. But my relatives some do express a need for Sunday to be a family day even though it rarely worksout that way it seems
Mar 11th, 2008, 12:52 PM
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There's a few reasons why the French don't shop on Sundays. First, they have a big meal in front of them on Sunday afternoon. The shopping has already made and now the cooking is started.
Second, to open a store on Sunday, it will find employees to work on Sunday. It's not easy to shift people around, finding some for each Sunday. The employer will have to add extra people (who will stay there forever and forever)but the return is very poor.
The Socialists pushed employees to leave earlier but the employers didn't replace these people. It was a noble thought but it didn't really work. The employers were happy being able to cut down their workforce. It's like the 35 hour workweek.
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Second, to open a store on Sunday, it will find employees to work on Sunday. It's not easy to shift people around, finding some for each Sunday. The employer will have to add extra people (who will stay there forever and forever)but the return is very poor.
The Socialists pushed employees to leave earlier but the employers didn't replace these people. It was a noble thought but it didn't really work. The employers were happy being able to cut down their workforce. It's like the 35 hour workweek.
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Mar 11th, 2008, 01:00 PM
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I think the reason French don't shop on Sunday is because the stores are closed.
Britain was that way once and now stores boom on Sundays
Here in U.S. workers beg to work on Sundays - at higher pay of course. My local supermarket every holiday (open 24 hours 364-5 days/yr except XMAS day) and Sundays the oldest in seniority workers are there - they demand to work on Sunday
would be the same in France IMO
what about restaurant workers - why are restaurants open under your explanation? Pizza deliveries? Cafes?
Sunday shopping is also more humane - Saturdays in hypermarches in France are insane IME.
Britain was that way once and now stores boom on Sundays
Here in U.S. workers beg to work on Sundays - at higher pay of course. My local supermarket every holiday (open 24 hours 364-5 days/yr except XMAS day) and Sundays the oldest in seniority workers are there - they demand to work on Sunday
would be the same in France IMO
what about restaurant workers - why are restaurants open under your explanation? Pizza deliveries? Cafes?
Sunday shopping is also more humane - Saturdays in hypermarches in France are insane IME.
Mar 11th, 2008, 03:26 PM
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You have to pay people who work on Sunday a lot more -- because it is SUNDAY.
Within a year or two, the laws in France will change, and hypermarkets will be open on Sunday. That is what Sarkozy wants.
(I am not against it, but it will seem less like France and less like Europe.)
Within a year or two, the laws in France will change, and hypermarkets will be open on Sunday. That is what Sarkozy wants.
(I am not against it, but it will seem less like France and less like Europe.)
Mar 11th, 2008, 07:55 PM
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Not everywhere in the US pays people more to work on Sunday. I am a manager of a large jewelry store in a mall in Atlanta, Georgia; when I make schedules, I try to rotate the Sunday shifts evenly among the staff, but they are paid the same hourly rate as any other day.
Mar 12th, 2008, 07:26 AM
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As an aside, one of the reasons that the Lower East Side of Manhattan became a major retail destination was because being a primarily Jewish neighborhood at the time they were exempted from blue laws which closed all of the competition around the city on Sudays. So on Sundays the folks from all around the city came to the Lower East Side.
