Discovering Paris: shopping for secondhand goods

Expat researcher writing about life in Paris 🇫🇷 to better understand it. Occasional series while I’m temporarily based here (2022-2024).

Please see my post on LinkedIn for the full text on secondhand shopping in Paris and how the market seems more mature in France compared to North America.

📸 Photos

Secondhand jeans for sale at Galeries Lafayette department store.

Ground floor of Les Printemps department store and upper floor with secondhand, vintage, and upcycled clothing.

The book and music store chain, Gibert Joseph, sells both new and used (with yellow sticker) book titles alongside each other.

References

Au Carreau du Temple, ex-sanctuaire de la fripe (Souviens toi de Paris, publication date unknown).

Biked Platform for selling and buying secondhand bikes and equipment.

Consumers are in fact buying sustainable goods: Highlights from new research (McKinsey, 2023).

How Do Perspectives in Environmental Science in Europe Compare to the U.S. (Population Education,2022)

La loi anti-gaspillage pour une économie circulaire (Ministère de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoires + Ministère de la Transition énergétique, 2023). In French.

La seconde main s'impose aux Galeries Lafayette Haussmann (Fashion Network, 2021). In French.

Le Bon Coin. Classified ads website popular in France.

Les vêtements d’occasion et leurs pérégrinations: Passé, présent et avenir de la friperie. Second hand clothes and their circuits: past, present and future (Gérard Bertolini, 2006). In French and English.

Photos on this page taken by the author.

Photo on blog landing page from Unsplash (Eddie Junior).