Originally Posted by Tourist in MSN

I think my travels are more likely to be in areas where common camping stuff is easily bought. Thus, that has not been a concern for me.

In unusual places, availability of canisters could be an issue if they do not have a lot of people camping and buying stove fuel. I think it is an issue of whether or not there is demand for a product.

I have never been to France, but I have heard that in some areas near France that the non-threaded cannisters are more common. The cannister on the left is unthreaded. But it is my understanding that these are pretty rare once you get farther away from that area. Most stoves that you buy in USA will not work on the unthreaded ones. I took this photo in Iceland, there were a lot of half full unthreaded canisters left behind that had accumulated because nobody had stoves that worked on them.



Someone on this forum in the past has said that you can buy the threaded canisters in France in Decathalon stores.

Even the threaded ones are probably less common than Coleman fuel. My Canadian trip in 2019, I bought a couple canisters in a Mec store in Halifax and another at a Canadian Tire store later on my trip. They were not that easy to find, but I had heard that Canadian Tire had them, so when I got near one of their stores, I bought another canister.