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Originally Posted by vice-versa
My grandson's great grandmother was 90  not I, I'm just 46, that makes a (little) difference
I think this particular store is simply a blurr, to small to have a real interest for their big chiefs. It's there to be able to say they are physically present (quite) everywhere.
As for Boulanger... I think you have to go there just when you know exactly beforehand what you want and can't find it anywhere else... (or if they have a good price for something for wich you don't need any advice ) |
I hate Boulanger, very much the same as Media Markt for me, or Worten in Spain and portugal, advertising the best prices when in fact you almost always can find cheaper elsewhere.
The FNAC, well, I am very attached to it, I guess it is part of our french cultural heritage. They are very good with books in general, and children books in particular, and the sales guys and gals used to know about the books they were selling, they used to be avid readers themselves so we'd have those really good exchange on books. Now of course, my experience was in the Rue de Rennes in Paris, so I guess the service was superb since it was, and still is, their flagship shop (it used to also be a super pick-up spot for us students
). They opened a FNAC next to my parents flat in the west of Paris, and it is brilliant, again with very good employees. The FNAC in Nimes on the other hand is less than stellar.
I have two FNACs here, one in Marbella and the other in Malaga, and the sales personal seems to be as bad as the one in Nimes. Plus they only sell bq readers (rebranded as FNAC ereader) or strange non e.Ink readers. Once in while they'll have an interesting new device, but so out of the normal product line that I may have a look but not more, and anyway the sales person in charge is almost always absolutely clueless about e-readers....