As France's delayed summer sales period gets underway, Paris shop owners have spoken of their fears for the future after three government-enforced shutdowns.
Here is a parable of modern Paris - the parable of La Samaritaine - another piece of authentic Paris grittiness reinvented as a luxury attraction for foreign tourists, writes John Lichfield.
Parisians will once again be able to stroll the gilded aisles of the Samaritaine department store starting Wednesday, after 16 years of painstaking work to restore the Art Deco and Art Nouveau landmark to its former glory.
The empty shelves of British store Marks and Spencer's Paris branches are "just the beginning" of Brexit, said French trade minister Franck Riester, although he added that France was committed to trade with the UK.
During lockdown, hundreds of small business owners in a small town in western France gathered on a 100 percent local e-commerce platform with a double objective: staying afloat and fighting giants such as Amazon.
As the coronavirus begins to ebb in France, the country has a problem unthinkable just a few weeks ago - a surplus of masks - prompting calls for consumers to purchase French-made ones.
The French government is beginning work on measures to extend the rights of shops to stay open all night, something that is currently strictly regulated.
Ikea has opened a new city-centre concept store in Paris - which the Swedish furniture giant hopes will be the first in a new direction for it stores around the globe.
US online retailer Amazon and French food giant Casino said Tuesday they would roll out their partnership in rapid delivery of groceries to further French cities in the coming months.
Six major French brands are joining forces to launch a sale similar to America's 'Black Friday' shopping bonanza...and shoppers in France don't have long to wait.
Shoppers in Paris take note. Already hit by the economic crisis, and after a dismal spring season, French retailers have started this year’s summer sales early, offering drastic reductions to bargain hunters.
The French government on Saturday confirmed that it is likely that horsemeat tainted with a potentially harmful drug is likely to have entered the food chain, adding to concerns over food safety across Europe.
The Champs Elysées, a site high on the list of many Paris visitors, is being transformed as eye-watering rents drive out retailers like British multinational Virgin to make space for what is likely to be another foreign group looking to showcase their products to some 300,000 window shoppers per day.
While others were celebrating the start of 2013, an elderly French woman spent New Year's Eve trapped in a supermarket after being locked inside, officials said.
<p>France's Carrefour, one of the world's top retailers, said Friday it would cede its share of a joint Greek network to deal with "challenges posed by the Greek economic context."</p>
<p>Employees of French music and film store chain Fnac held one of their bosses hostage for seven hours on Thursday. They say talks over increasing pay and improving work conditions were going nowhere.</p>
<p>British food and fashion store Marks & Spencer, which shut its French branches a decade ago, said on Wednesday it will have a shop open on the Champs-Elysees before Christmas and plans four other<br /> Paris shops.</p>
<p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Popular British clothing brand, Boden, is about to launch in France but its boss may have committed a PR own-goal by labelling French women as ‘stroppy’.</span></p>
<p>Small explosives concealed in alarm clocks have detonated at an Ikea furniture store in Lille, in an attack apparently coordinated with similar incidents in Belgium and the Netherlands, Belgian authorities said on Tuesday.</p>
