Si-Yuan Dong

Review of Ethan K

This is my second visit to Paris, but this is my f...

This is my second visit to Paris, but this is my first visit to Lafayette. Because I am not a typical Chinese tourist who likes shopping. The Galeries Lafayette near Paris Opera House is relatively low-key from the outside, but the ceiling inside is very beautiful. The splendid decoration of the gold and the dome of the stained glass is gorgeous but not vulgar, let everyone take a snap shot with the mobile phone. But in terms of shopping experience and cost performance, I personally feel that shopping at Lafayette is not a very enjoyable process. First of all, in addition to the central glass ceiling, the decoration in the store is not very gorgeous and luxurious nor very modern. Compared with the new street in Nanjing, Huaihai Road in Shanghai and several modern shopping centers in Wangfujing in Beijing, It's not particularly big, it makes people feel that the advantage is that the women's and cosmetics counters on the second and third floors of the first floor downstairs are okay, but the display is crowded and even messy, only coming and going at home The crowd even makes people feel a little confused and dizzy. The experience of the children's clothing and swimwear and underwear departments on the fourth and fifth floors is even worse. Although there are fewer people here, the roof is very low and there is no decoration, which makes people feel very depressed. There is a glass corridor on the fourth floor which is not very long or very high. Anyone with fear of heights like me can go up and walk around. However, there are many people lining up in this glass corridor. The worst experience in Galeries Lafayette is estimated to be the toilet. Only the basement and the top floor have toilets, but the men s toilet in the basement is still closed, so many people on the top floor are waiting for the toilet. This is a place I don't quite understand. Why is there such a shortage of toilets in such a top-level consumer place? Finally, when it comes to cost performance, I compared the price of Lafayette and found that after changing the exchange rate, the same type of cosmetics and clothing accessories stores are more expensive than domestic ones, even more expensive than London and Dubai. I know that tax refunds are available for shopping at Galeries Lafayette, but I still have some small questions about cost performance. Especially when shopping at Galeries Lafayette, it seems that no samples are provided when buying cosmetics, and what's worse is that all the counters selling cosmetics have put trial samples inside! If you buy cosmetics of the same grade in shopping malls in London and Manchester, at the same price, the store will generously give a lot of samples, and will not skimp on the sample to the counter, everyone can freely put perfume Open the news and try the skin cream on your hand, but this is not possible in Lafayette! Maybe everyone is holding the mentality of visiting here, or people who can spend here will not pay too much attention to cost performance? It seems that I am old-fashioned.