Whilst France has a large number of British citizens and expats living in it, there are relatively few particularly British shops in the country. It is almost strange to think that staple supermarkets of the British high street like Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and Asda do not exist just across the English Channel. Tesco’s last booze-cruise-bastion in Calais has closed, whilst Marks & Spencer’s handful of Parisien stores appear to have permanently shut their doors. Lidl and Aldi exist throughout France, but their international model of supermarket mean that their offered goods are more reflective of local demands than providing anything that would appear particularly English, Scottish or British.
British goods are therefore most commonly found in small, specialist shops found haphazardly across the country, and through some online stores which offer delivery direct from the UK (or, quite-commonly due to post-Brexit restrictions, Ireland) and sometimes from warehouses in the EU. Unfortunately, the scale of these operations is often small-scale, meaning that the range can be somewhat reduce, or the prices of individual items quite high.
Fortunately, The Trading Post has long-established supply chains to the UK and has been providing British goods (including demonstrably British and Scottish fayre) as well as International items for nearly twenty years from its main warehouse in the heart of the French Alps. We supply directly to individual retail customers and even have a dedicated collection point network allowing many of our clients to receive their goods with no delivery cost whatsoever. Furthermore, we supply a large number of small British shops, bars, restaurants and cafes, meaning that items we import are often on the shelves (or websites) of some of our smaller contemporaries. Even huge supermarket chains receive their British goods from The Trading Post… so if you pop into an Intermarche, Super U, E.Leclerc or Carrefour and they have a British section, they could well have originated from The Trading Post’s warehouse.
By selling British goods direct to individual customers through our website, in addition to the shops that sell to individual customers, in addition to the wholesalers that supply some shops to sell to individual customers, The Trading Post have become probably the most trusted and frequently-used shop for English and Scottish goods in France. In a country where British goods are not always available (particularly at a reasonable price) we are proud that The Trading Post gives everyone a taste of home.
Furthermore, having done countless comparisons with other online stores (such as Brittains, British Store, BaconbytheBox, British Corner Shop and British Essentials), The Trading Post has found itself to be consistently the most competitive in terms of price, range of products available and delivery options to all our customers, large and small.
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