Textiles, toys, perfumes, flowers and many other goods will no longer be available for sale from Wednesday, November 4.
The measure, announced Sunday by Jean Castex, aims to "prohibit the sale of products already prohibited in local shops".
The decree defining essential products "will be published tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, so there is a tolerance until Wednesday," Bercy explained in a message to the press.
On the shelves of Auchan Bagnolet, customers are wondering. “It may not be stupid to prevent small traders from losing too much in this. But afterwards, if Amazon wins, that doesn't make much sense either. Amazon is not small traders, ”says Balthazar Toupart, a Parisian student, when Elodie Laloum, press officer, wonders about the very notion of“ essential products ”. “I saw shops selling foie gras, wine, vaporettes. For me, it's more useful that there are books and puzzles during confinement ”.