France Insider

Future of Retail Parks

Sept. 13, 2023, 9:29 a.m.

Future of Retail Parks

13th Sept 2023

The government has launched a programme to begin the transformation of retail parks in France.

Sixty years after the creation of the first Carrefour hypermarket at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris, the outskirts of the towns and cities of France have been blighted by a succession of soulless commercial centres, which have become known as 'la France moche’ (ugly France).

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