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More than 70 percent of French household food purchases are made in supermarkets and local smaller discount stores.

France (including its overseas territories) has 67 million consumers and is the third largest economy in the European Union after Germany and the United Kingdom.

In 2013, French consumers spent approximately 10 percent of their budgets on food and beverage purchases, including alcohol.

In December 2014, the French Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll released a plan to increase the production of protein crops in France between 2014 and 2020.

Socio-economic and demographic changes continued to alter food trends in France.