City Pharma: Discount Drugstore in St. Germain

Unlike the U.S with its price warring drug chains, France doesn’t have discount drugstores or even large drug chains for that matter.

However, City Pharma, in the 6th arr. near St. Germain, consistently offers 30-40% off of most popular brands. Stock up on your favorite French and European labels like Weleda, Biotherm, Roc, Caudalie, Phyto, Vichy, Bioderma, Roger et Gallet, Elancyl, and even American brands like Neutrogena and John Frieda. The tightly packed and well stocked shop has two floors, the first floor having mostly beauty and hair products, and the second floor having a prescription counter, homeopathic and herbal remedies, and Dr. Scholl’s foot care products.

I was there at about 7PM last night and it was teeming with upscale aggressive female shoppers who practically knocked me over with their baskets loaded with cosmetics, as though it was the last day on earth they would be able to buy face and thinning creams. Lines at the registers were 10 deep, so I didn’t bother to purchase anything but I will return.

City-Pharma
26, rue du Four, 6th arr.
01 46 33 20 81
Open Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Metro: St. Sulpice,St. Germain, or Mabillon

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

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Comments

[YSLGuy]

I have just stumbled on your blog this week and absolutely love it. If you get a chance to pop back in to this drugstore you MUST try the Caudalie products. I can't live without my eye serum and the Beauty Elixir. They are amazing products.

Also, you won't find them discounted in the U.S., they are in more upscale department stores and boutiques here like Nordstroms. So stuck up on during the discount when you can. Thanks for a great read!

[City Stroller]

I've had a chance to look at what you do on your guided tours and have checked the feedback - you must be doing something right.

It seems that you pride yourself on giving tours around Paris that take the visitor off the beaten track. One thing that I wanted to know was whether people fully embrace this idea, or are a few of them left wanting to go to the main events/star attraction? Ultimately, are you tours for the first timer to Paris or for the returning visitor with time on the hands and deep-running passion for the place?

[RIchard]

To City stroller,
I went an email to you address on here and also on your site and they both bounced back.

thanks for your comment on my blog and for your question.Yes, I pride my self on the off the beaten path tours, and my goal is to show visitors/tourists things they would probably not find on their own. Most people know from the start that's what i do , and if not, I tell them so. sometimes I get request to do both, and I will sometimes accommodate them, but I try and stick to what I know and like.
I always say I'm the anti- eiffel tower/davinci code tour.
Ultimately, are you tours for the first timer to Paris or for the returning visitor with time on the hands and deep-running passion for the place?
it's funny, I get both. many first timers still will do the tourist things on their own but will then want something special or I get people who visit all the time and want to see something different. or sometimes it's people who have been just a few times and have seen all the tourist things but then don't know what else there is to see.

I love doing my tours and I meet the most incredible, generous, and interesting people from around the world.did you see my blog post about my Girl Scout group last week?
they were very special.
I just looked at your site and tested a sample of one of the paris tours. very well done. May i subscribe you to my blog?take care and again thanks for reading my blog.

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