The French apparently invented hypermarchés, the huge, sprawling superstores that sell everything from food to clothes to appliances. Nobody admits to liking them, but they have replaced countless grocery stores and small supermarkets -- at least until now. According to a recent article in La Dépêche, Toulouse's newspaper, French consumers are becoming disenchanted with their hypers and are ready to rediscover a more intimate shopping experience.
Personally I've always found the hypermarchés far too exhausting; you often have to roam through a whole shopping mall just to get to them. Fortunately in Aveyron, where I live, we have been spared the truly immense megastores. Maybe if the theory in this article is correct, we won't have any in the future either.
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