Posting my review of Frankfurt airport in case this is helpful for others.
Duty free shopping here is quite different than the rest of Europe. In other countries (ex U.K. since they got rid of vat tax shipping) if you buy at airport the price is without any VAT tax so you get the full (18-21% discount) whereas if you you buy in the city you only get ~8-14% back since the company and global blue takes a large cut.
However at Frankfurt airport they opperate the SAME way! I purchased a maxmara coat and only got 11% back instead of 19% back and still hd to go to customs and globale blue despite being ast customs ans security as well. There is NO advantage of buying at the airport compared to in the city. Quite disappointing. Also frankfurt is poorly laid out and despit my flight and the store being in terminal 1 I stil had to take a shuttle.
I also stopped at the official duty free store and was surprised that makeup was so expensive and didn’t seem to be discounted at all compared to $ prices.
Duty free shopping here is quite different than the rest of Europe. In other countries (ex U.K. since they got rid of vat tax shipping) if you buy at airport the price is without any VAT tax so you get the full (18-21% discount) whereas if you you buy in the city you only get ~8-14% back since the company and global blue takes a large cut.
However at Frankfurt airport they opperate the SAME way! I purchased a maxmara coat and only got 11% back instead of 19% back and still hd to go to customs and globale blue despite being ast customs ans security as well. There is NO advantage of buying at the airport compared to in the city. Quite disappointing. Also frankfurt is poorly laid out and despit my flight and the store being in terminal 1 I stil had to take a shuttle.
I also stopped at the official duty free store and was surprised that makeup was so expensive and didn’t seem to be discounted at all compared to $ prices.
