France plans to shorten its sales periods to just four weeks

Published: 12-Jan-2018
Retail

The country's national sales are strictly regulated and form the only time in the year when stores can legally sell for less than cost

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France is to shorten the length of its two annual national sales from six weeks to four in order to create more consumer urgency, according to a spokeswoman for France’s Economic Ministry.

Delphine Gény-Stephann, Secretary of State to the Minister for the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced the

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