WARES AT A NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET

TAKE THAT UNDER THE 13TH'S AERIAL MÉTRO 

( MARCHÉ VINCENT AURIOL, UNDER LINE 6 IN THE 13TH)

A smaller market that is just as pleasant is 10 minutes away. The two relay each other on Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. A larger market, 10 minutes away in another direction, is open on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays (at place d'Italie). 

Meat, fish, fruits, vegetables

Everyday articles at a fraction of store prices: housewares, electronic accessories, toothpaste, magic markers, batteries, crayons, brushes, belts...

  

Flowers

Cheese

These cheeses from farmers in central France are better than those at supermarkets or even organic chain stores.

Herbs

Clothes

 

Furniture

Violins

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Immigrants enrich it with...

• Everyday products at lower prices — here, organic eggs  —  and in the background, imports such as the olive oils, honey, dates and figs:

I buy eggs and North African products from this amiable Moroccan, Mohammed. When I forgot to take the figs I had paid for, he left his stand and ran after me across the street: "Madame Catherine, you forgot this!"

• Home cooking: Moroccan and Lebanese specialties prepared on the spot

• "Where are you from?" "China." (Big smile)

 

• Crafts (please click and scroll down).

• Beauty products, plastic sandals, boubous.

Amelia Nsulia and husband John, from the Republic of Congo

• Cordiality.

Supermarkets are anonymous.

Markets have a soul.   

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A street where (some) wholesalers sell retail