Galleries Lafayette is a department store on steroids and a shopper's paradise, offering mid-range…read moreand higher end products. Their merchandise is extremely diverse, comprising just about anything you want across three buildings. The main building, where you'll find women's fashions, accessories, cosmetics, eyeglasses (including an optometrist), sportswear, children's wear, is topped with a must-see art glass dome, complete with a glass cat walk (maybe on the 4th floor?) that enables up close viewing of the dome from the inside. There are restaurants, rest rooms, and sweets shops in this building, too. Menswear has a building all to itself, as does the food court. Be careful here. There are so many delicious and appetizing foods offered in the food court building that you'll be tempted to overstuff. It would be just too easy to spend an entire day shopping at Galleries Lafayette.

The iconic shopping house is HUGE!!! We came here for last…read moreminute shopping since it's so close to our hotel. The store is packed at all hours, all days of the week. At the entrance all the well known brands for bags and clothing. The area for Moynart Labubu was doing brisk business. A Labubu bag I looked at was 2300 euros!!! Soooo many stuff here. We went to the 6th floor to get souvenirs, cookies, and gifts to bring home. Our suitcases will be packed full. Great service, friendly staff. No pictures, the store was too crowded and I didn't want to get in trouble for taking pictures with no permission.

This smaller Printemps is at the local Versailles "mall". The store deserves a 3 star review for…read moreit's smaller selection BUT!!!!!!......they have a Pierre Hermes popup with every flavor of macaron and NO LINE!!!!! I found that most of the sales people do not speak English but that is okay with us. Pierre Hermes!!!!!

Anything you need. Totally, truly French!…read moreLoved our purchases. Cosmetics, socks, food, souvenirs.

This place is a small and very nicer version of a grocery store selling home goods and clothing…read more Prices are higher then the grocery store but for convenience, i stopped in often for beer, wine and water. Thy sell chips and some American products. But its fun to try the French stuff. Prices are high but convenience makes up for it. Clothing i would compare to Old Navy so not worth it and is on street level so have to go downstairs for the grocery items. It took me a couple days to figure this out lol. Bring your own bags because they will charge you. If you are staying in Saint Germain, this will suffice for needed things.

Costco Massy is easy to get to--just one bus from our hotel. The store feels almost identical to…read moreU.S. Costcos, except for a huge hanging sausage and lots of French pastries. The deli food was disappointing though: dry chicken and overcooked fries. We also learned the hot dog drink isn't unlimited; you scan your receipt once and that's it. Interesting to visit, but not much different from home.

Introduced it today to French friends. They loved it. Very busy on a Saturday, so i guess must be…read morevery popular here. Food was excellent. COSTCO hot dogs have flavor, unlike British and French hot dogs in a jar.

If you are staying in Paris City, would not recommend trekking out to the outlets. Firstly, if you…read moreare looking for good deals on the luxury designer goods, the inventory and options are quite limited. Secondly, several of the stores and how they are run and how the associates act are deplorable and really ruin your impression on those brands (I.e. YSL, Gucci, Burberry). The lines you see are really fake lines because of how slow they are moving in the stores. Check out at Gucci, took 45 minutes due to incompetence and slowness - unbelievable. Prada and Chloe were some of the only pleasant experiences. Just not worth it being almost an hour drive/metro from Paris.

Overall, it wasn't worth the trip out of the city for me…read more They had all the high end stores that I liked such as Burberry, Fendi, Gucci, Celine, and more but I didn't really find anything of liking. Most stores have very few selections and are the older season items. The only full stores with wide selections were couple stores like Burberry and Gucci. What I did like was Maje and there's a never ending indoor mall next to the village called the Centre Commercial Val d'Europe where you can shop from Zara, Mango, H&M, and Uniqlo without the mass crowd like in the city. Also, if you download a promo QR code you can snag a free treat (differ during promo period but at the time, I claimed 2 free macarons at Laudree). This is the site I had found it on: obonparis.com/en/coupon/la-vallee-village One other thing I liked was that they had all the major dessert shops like Laudree, Pierre Herme, Amorino, and more to enjoy without having to endure the wait like the city. Despite this, it wasn't worth the transportation costs.

First stop before any financial damage was done. We went to the food court. We headed downstairs…read morefor a nice ice cold drink and a quick bite. Maybe it is the American in me, but this did not feel like any food court I have seen back home. There are only four stalls in total. Joe and The Juice, Pierre Marcolini, Yi The, and one more I did not catch. My son ordered the L'Amore (strawberry, raspberry blueberry tea) from Yi The. The juice was decent and I was very pleased to see they used fresh ingredients, but not every drink works with boba. This was one of those times where it just did not. My husband also bought a bottle of coke, which cost 3.50 euro, which is very expensive for any food Court standards Next door, we got our first macarons of the trip from Pierre Marcolini. We tried the Dubai macaron, the signature one, the Noisette, and the most delicious of them all, the Framboise. They were all delicious and not too sweet, which I really appreciated. I loved every bite, but my favorites were the raspberry macaron with dark chocolate filling and the hazelnut one called Noisette. It was definitely worth the stop.

I had seen many photos and videos of Galeries Lafayette swirling around instagram, especially…read moreduring Christmas time. I was little disappointed once inside as it wasn't quite as magical as expected, but it's a shopping area, so what do you expect. The biggest disappointment is that you have to pay to use the restrooms here. Ridiculous! I didn't have any cash and wasn't sure if I'd be able to use a card, so I had to leave. There was a long line of people trying to use the bathrooms, so they must make a nice chunk of change from this. But quite stressful when you would expect a restroom especially for how large this place is.

The mall is great. Tons of options for shopping, eating etc. We bribed our hotel shuttle driver to…read moretake us and was a lot cheaper than uber.

I haven't been all over the world.... yet ! Lol Butttt this…read moreplace has it all in the mall world. From grocery stores to fast food to cool chocolate shops, sephora. Music stores, cinema! It's a great place it's well presented the floors are polished to perfection. Everyone walking around there looks happy, not your typical mall in Paris. Buy your gifts and booze here don't waste time at the airport. Shop till you drop and if you do need a break plenty of seats around.

Truly, one of the best concept stores I've ever been to. Three stories, home good, great fashion,…read moretote bags, jewelry, and more. Everyone floods to the classic canvas tote. But I saw out of the corner of my eye... L.L. Bean boat bag copy. It came in all leopard print. And needed to have it. It's also a fraction of the price! Don't miss the store on your next trip to Paris

Merci is a cute shop in Paris that feels like the city's answer to Japan's Muji. You'll find a mix…read moreof stylish lifestyle items, though prices can run a bit high -- for example, even sale T-shirts are still around €35. While some of the accessories, like baguette keychains or small trinkets, can be found in many souvenir shops, Merci's tote bags really stand out and make for a great Paris souvenir.