long queue and crowd in front of the Fnac on the Champs-Élysées for its clearance sale before closing

The meeting was planned for this Friday at 74 avenue des Champs-Élysées, Fnac's historic address since 1997. On the program: a huge clearance sale to empty everything before the store closes on January 12.

Promotions of up to 80% on all products in the store, except books, are planned. “To mark these last moments together, we invite you to take advantage of our exclusive offers during our liquidation,” Fnac announced on its website. Enough to give ideas to customers, who came in large numbers in the morning. From 7 a.m., a huge queue formed on the most beautiful avenue in the world, bringing together up to 3,000 people, according to Paris-Île-de-France.

The queue to enter, in small groups of 30 people, extended as far as rue de La Boétie, a hundred meters further. So much so that the brand, faced with the influx and the disruptions linked to a crowd movement, decided to lower the curtain until further notice.

“Heavily in deficit”, the brand located on the prestigious avenue de Paris will close its doors on January 12. “The plan to close the store is the only economically reasonable and socially responsible decision,” the group said in a press release last March. .

The 101 employees of the store will be offered “a position offer identical to the one occupied, under the same salary conditions, within another Fnac store in Paris (Ternes, Saint-Lazare, Forum des Halles, Montparnasse, Beaugrenelle)” , the group said. had clarified.