“ It's as if this year, we had Christmas in May, and since then, it hasn't stopped ,” says Éric Sublet, manager of the board games business Ludifolie. If its Vincennes store closed its doors during confinement, the traffic to its site has been boosted, " with about three times more sales than usual on the internet ". The deconfinement and the reopening of the store only confirmed this craze. " We still have a very strong activity, and this summer even more than usual ", he summarizes.
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For Karine Caratini, manager of the online game store FaceAuJeu, the reason for this rush is not mysterious. “ Many started playing during confinement, and realized that it is a hobby in the same way as dance and sport: it allows you to disconnect, to be between parents and children. So today, this sharing continues. »Maxime Damien, communications manager for Philibert, a benchmark board game store in France,
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