“I never take my phone with me when I go to town,” explains Francette, camped in front of a pharmacy in Charleville-Mézières in the Ardennes.
So this retiree finds her new plastic card "very practical", supporting her vaccination pass, which she has already had the opportunity to use to "enter bars".
“I tell all my friends about it,” she says, captivated.
She got this credit card size pass from Nathalie.
This pharmacist has been testing the DupliPass printer from the Angevin company Evolis for almost four months.
It allows you to print the QR codes of your patients on plastic cards sold for three euros.
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"One day my phone ran out of battery, and I found myself without a vaccination pass", testifies Nourddine, employee of the town hall of Charleville-Mézières, estimating that his new plastic card freshly printed will not fail him. .
For the moment, the device is deployed in around 200 pharmacies and local shops across the territory.
“We had very enthusiastic feedback from customers,” reports Nathalie behind the counter of her pharmacy.
It has sold around 800 cards since October to a variety of audiences, from “college students who found it seriously stylish” to elderly people “without smartphones who want a more practical solution than a piece of paper”.
In the bar “L'Imprévu” on the Place Ducale which faces the town hall of the Ardennes town, the pass works without any problem but the opinions are mixed.
"At least it doesn't degrade like the paper format", recognizes a server.
"It's not great for the ecology", nuances the manager of the establishment.
“On the laptop it is more than enough.
There are a lot of people who put their pass in the background, it's very practical, ”he continues.