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14 things you can do at a tabac in France apart from buy cigarettes

With tobacco sales falling your local tabac is diversifying into banking, printing and much more

Tabac shops in France will soon accept payment for utility bills

The new scheme will launch in 2023, and will include gas, electricity, water, and even some rent bills

Banking, electricity and phone payments at your local tabac in France

Due to falling tobacco sales some 'tabacs' will further diversify their services from July at no extra cost to the customer

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New French Channel Tunnel duty-free shop is ‘only fair’ says Getlink

Tabac owners oppose plans for a new shop at the Eurotunnel terminal in Pas-de-Calais for travellers leaving France on their way to the UK saying it will ‘distort competition’

Tabacs in France can now have ATMs in latest addition to services

The shops have diversified considerably over the years to now sell not only tobacco products but also lottery tickets, newspapers, snacks and more. Some also offer bank accounts

Tabacs can now help with your admin in France

New easy-to-use computer terminals with touch screens are being deployed in rural tobacconists to allow people without the internet to do their admin

Pay fines, taxes and bills at over 5,000 tabacs

Fines and some bills and taxes can be now be paid at 5,100 bureaux de tabac after a successful trial scheme was extended countrywide.

France: Where have UK newspapers gone?

Why have overseas newspapers - including those from the UK - disappeared from many tabac shelves in France?

French tabacs to sell train tickets

Tobacconists in four French regions are to start selling TER train tickets as part of a trial from this month.

French tabacs to sell train tickets

Tobacconists in four regions will trial a ticket scheme, SNCF's outgoing president says

Tabacs 'to sell Bitcoin from 2019'

Banque de France says it has not given the scheme its approval

Complaint made after mysterious ‘lost’ lottery ticket

A woman has lodged an official complaint against the French lottery company, La Française Des Jeux (FDJ) , after her lottery ticket allegedly mysteriously went missing.

Basic banking at tabacs is taking off

Simple bank accounts could be all that holiday home owners need to have in France

Low-cost bank accounts at tabacs

A NEW kind of “no-frills banking” which could be ideal for second homeowners or anyone wanting low-cost, simple French banking, is taking off via tabacs.

Tabacs

14 things you can do at a tabac in France apart from buy cigarettes

Tabac shops in France will soon accept payment for utility bills

Banking, electricity and phone payments at your local tabac in France

New French Channel Tunnel duty-free shop is ‘only fair’ says Getlink

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Tabacs in France can now have ATMs in latest addition to services

Tabacs can now help with your admin in France

Pay fines, taxes and bills at over 5,000 tabacs

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French tabacs to sell train tickets

French tabacs to sell train tickets

Tabacs 'to sell Bitcoin from 2019'

Complaint made after mysterious ‘lost’ lottery ticket

Basic banking at tabacs is taking off

Low-cost bank accounts at tabacs

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