RS Talk about trolley rage.
Even the domestic cameo impresses, as Chiraz Aich does the disgruntled trolley monologues with native French fluency.
Antique marquee and channel letters are displayed throughout the showroom along with bold black-and-white trolley signs, gorgeous vintage maps, French movie posters and colorful Hagemann botanical prints.
Signs show consumers how their trolley's footprint compares with the average.The French exceptionThese initiatives by French retailers are being backed by government action.
ONE of the most perplexing questions of the early 21st century is this: how can the French, who invented joie de vivre, the three-tier cheese trolley and Dior's jaunty New Look, be so resolutely miserable?
A spontaneous familiarity with the display on a three-tier cheese trolley is essential to the national identity of the French.
When a food trolley porter forgets his bilingual brief, and announces in French that he will return later, an elderly English woman mutters "Pardon", but only once he's out of earshot.
"One day, things really got out of hand," says Hittz....Bob Hope died of a heart attack while chasing French nuns in a convent in 1945, says Gerd Steingrupper, a trolley operator who on weekends makes a hobby of being an amateur historian.
The French seem to have no trouble filling up their shopping trolleys with American-branded washing powder or cheap plastic swimming pools made in China, selected from a vast choice stacked in hangar-like suburban hypermarkets.
A three-tier rolling trolley in chrome and glass recalls a 1929 design by the French designer Eileen Gray.
A girl in care, Nina, is spotted by a French woman who believes her to be her baby, stolen years before from a supermarket trolley.
