Hiya…and yes, it makes perfect sense.
It basically depends where your Google account is registered. You can only register it in one place and those apps that are geographically restricted will not be available to phones or devices registered elsewhere. My Google is registered in the UK and I have a ton of UK apps which work fine, wherever I am. I also have a few French apps which work, including SFR and Lidl, but many that are unavailable, such as Grand Frais. Two ways to fix it - change your place of registration for Google (but might block UK apps you are using) or open a second Google account and switch between the two. Problem with the latter is that emails and etc will not be available so although technically possible, it is realistically not worth it.
Thanks. I think that od consider using an older spare phone if I wanted to do that in order to not compromise the main phone.
Or possibly a different browser, yes not using google
So pleased my plastic Intermarché card works OK and without any hassle 
You can create an account on a computer that’s ‘british’ but not a phone : app store=Google.
I had a similar problem with the Grand Frais app as it wasn’t available on Google play for my default address (UK). AI came to my rescue by pointing me to another source for the app (but as always be careful where you download stuff from).
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Not so. I have 4 Google accounts on my phone and you move between account mailboxes with 2 clicks.
Likewise the other browsers I loaded to get around the original Lidl two country problem.
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Where was the source for the app you used, if you don’t mind me asking? Despite what others have said, Google only allows one account to be linked to the Play store and so I just get the message “this app is not available for any of your devices” because there is a geographic barrier there. Seems reasonable to suppose that it is possible to sideload the app from another source - long time since I did that but might be worth a try.
How do you do that? I seem to have two - one which is a mystery to me - but could be useful to have a french one too. Not least because OH uses my google account as refuses to have his own, so knows everything I do.
Easy.
just have a different gmail acct whose profile is the country you need it to be.
Lidl has now reorganised so you can dynamically select which country you are buying in in the app, and change when needed.
When I tried to move a UK profile to France it trashed all sorts of stuff - completely losing access to previous orders - which finally ended up getting reloaded under my profile for a third country which I had never asked Lidl to do. Lidl had clearly never thought of the possibility that someone might flit around being their customer in several countries at a time. So it was a mess that never got fixed.
From what I’ve seen of the new app it looks like they’ve thought about it now.
It’s been like for at least the last 2 years since I’ve been charging an EV.
when they messed up my main account here in France - as I used same addy in UK app - and I lost all my history in France was Sept-Oct about 2 years ago I would think.
Sorry I cannot remember the source but I found it on either ChatGPT or Gemini.
Ah, no problem. I found a few but there is always a risk of incorporating malware and I didn’t see any source that I felt confident in using. As I use my phone a lot for online banking and other payments it is too risky for me I’m afraid.
Emboldened by some of the other comments I decided to install a second Google account on my phone, which has been described as easy but I found it clunky and a pain, to be honest, and it messed up my main settings and I had to manually change them back. But it worked and the Play store allowed the official install and I think from now switching between the two accounts for Play will indeed be easy. I don’t install too many apps but I recall I have been stymied in the past when wanting to install some transport payment apps that required a French account, so maybe that will be useful for more than just store discounts at Grand Frais.
Cheers
Russell
What I have done is to keep an old (previous) phone for internet banking. It generally stays at home and switched off, only used when needed.
Not workable for me, I am afraid. I need to switch money between accounts, make international payments and etc all the time and I travel quite a bit too. So I have a UK sim and a French e-Sim in the same phone. I carry more than enough techno-gadgetry with me as it is, without adding to it.
R
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