Online, in store, via your television or by scanning a barcode; there are multiple ways to shop for things. Adding to the Internet of Things, start-up Awear Solutions plans to let you literally shop the shirt off someone’s back as they walk down the street.

French-made goods have never been more desirable, and over 95% of French people see buying French products as a ‘citizen act’. But what has led them to care quite so much about local production? And do foreign brands still have a place in French people’s hearts?

Frenchologie is a website which brings together a selection of designers and brands that are exclusively French with the aim of promoting the art of living and the French "savoir faire". The product range includes fashion, beauty and delicatessen.

In France, specialist beauty retailers have lost significant market share, and people are warier of what they put on their skin. Aroma-Zone says DIY beauty products are the answer. But will French women swap well-loved luxury brands for lotions and potions they have to make by hand?