CNIT is a pretty cool place, it has a few stores including a large Monoprix featuring a cafe, it is…read morealso home to a Hilton Hotel, located in the Puteaux/La Defense region of Paris, close to the metro and bus interchange. Inside, it is bright and has a nice, new, modern feel to it, while the selection of shops is okay, the giant square featuring Grande Arche and the Westfield Les 4 Temps across the way, one of my favourite malls worldwide makes it better. CNIT stans for Centre of New Industries and Technologies, it was one of the first buildings in La Defense which are the business area of Paris, I like to think of it as a Parisian Canary Wharf. I did find the lifts a little confusing and difficult to navigate at first. I did find the loud construction noises throughout during the daytime to be offputting, I get they have to do it sometime and it can be difficult with a hotel, but it just felt a little uncomfortable. The place is weird overall from having offices to shops and hotels, it isn't' HUGE but is a decent size, perhaps they're doing too much? 3* - A really nice building featuring some useful locations from Nespresso to Monoprix, and even a Hilton in a nice part of the city but it's only the start of your La Defense journey. Review #3300

Weird place. Offices and retail businesses all tossed into one huge structure, right along with…read morebeing connected to the RER train station and the Metro subway station. They have free wifi, so the French employees don't even have to report to their offices to work. They just congregate at one of the coffee shops and then move to the next coffee shop where they can continue their social time - which by the way lasts until lunch when they go somewhere else to avoid their office. After a two hour lunch, they might just take the metro or train home, because they do have a grueling 30 hour work week to fake so that they can earn their 16 weeks vacation time. Thank god for socialism, because these overwrought employees only have to do this for 20 years before they get 100% pensions. Whew! what a relief. Here is a typical French employee, doing absolutely nothing - http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/cnit-puteaux?select=KvOei8a9yRjFgyutlZ-xNg#8ZhT5eGOQO62p9545gRYfA All dressed up, but sitting on his ass for hours. Please notice the offices overhead - empty in the middle of the morning.

Applestore, you have a real management issue in this shop. Send someone undercover with an ordinary…read moreand average appearance to see for yourself. Your staff are pretty more than the number of costumers, and most of them lack of professional experience and how to deal with costumers. The store is full and congestive of employees who circulate around themselves in circles that includes, long breaks and intervals of talking to each other. Besides the security staff are very aggressive and very arrogant. I hope you revise your store information and check the number of staff and see if it is relevant to the store area and number of customers served, and check the efficiency of serving with the satisfaction of costumers. The moment we arrived we asked the person at entrance if we can enter without reservation, he said yes and asked us to stay in the queue. After about 15 minutes queuing, we arrived at the entrance and we were about to enter, another agent asked us more than 5 questions, then the first one came and whispered to him, and we were happy and about to enter, he said we can't enter (after queuing). If you don't have an appointment, the agent would decide, by your look who may go in, and who may not. After discussing with him a little bit he said he is the one who decides who may enter and he may not and it is up to him. You have a serious problem of arrogant employees and of management there. I really wish you good luck, with this store because it have a not very nice reputation in Paris.

A pretty typical Apple Store in a mall location, it's a great addition to the mall even though it…read moreisn't as grand or exciting as the other standalone locations, of which they have a couple of around Paris, with my favourite being on the Champs-Élysées. Apple Store's have changed drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the aftermath, in the UK, the US and France, I've noticed the following - Compulsory masks - if you are exempt/refuse to wear one you will be denied entry - Compulsory hand gel on arrival - You must queue separately for the store or Genius Bar, state why you want to enter the store and be escorted in by a staff member - Temperature checks, if you display a high temperature you will be banned from entering (again Paris is really hot especially in the Summer, often coming close or topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit so is temperature really a good way of testing here?) They had a decent range of Apple products, I didn't notice a Today At Apple Section. The store seemed rather generic in most parts. Free wi-fi in the store as expected, I do think the store looked good from the outside with the giant Apple logo which makes it look better from the exterior than the mall locations of Apple in the UK. Useful store if you're passing through the mall or in the La Defense area, staff friendly enough. Not the greatest Apple Store but still pretty good. 3*