In Autumn in Paris, struggling shops get creative to survive


  • World
  • Thursday, 19 Nov 2020

A woman, wearing a protective face mask, walks past a closed hair and cosmetic shop in a street in Paris during the second national lockdown as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in France, November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) - Toy store owner Marie Boudier is grateful November has been unusually mild in Paris this year - she's trying to survive France's second coronavirus lockdown by selling Lego sets and colouring books through her open front door.

From behind a trestle table, Boudier has taken to handing over her orders without letting customers in, a makeshift measure replicated up and down her street and across France amid a minefield of dos and don'ts for stores deemed non-essential.

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