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Reconfinement: supermarkets stormed as in March

2020-10-28T18:20:47.826Z


The specter of a reconfinement gives rise to scenes similar to those observed at the approach of the first confinement. Toilet paper, pulp and water are the flagship products.


Queues in front of stores, rushes for toilet paper and pasta departments ... Consumers replay the panicked scenes of March.

And this even though the distributors have assured that no shortage was to be feared - there was no real shortage in the spring - as long as consumers do not change their habits.

To read also: "We will only do more work ...": when the anguish of reconfinement rises

But it is clear that anxiety is winning over the caddies.

The pasta department of Auchan d'Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône) was robbed on Wednesday, reports

La Provence

.

In Thionville (Moselle), the Leclerc is "

crowded

", abounds Lorraine Actu.

The Auchan de Semécourt (Moselle) has also been "

taken by storm

" since opening this morning, continues the regional news site.

Identical finding in Bordeaux,

Southwest

note

.

On Twitter, a user took a picture of the robbed toilet paper department of the Intermarché in Libourne (Gironde).

At the Intermarché de Foix, this afternoon, all the cash registers were running at full speed, reports

La Dépêche du Midi

.

"

The cheap penne or the Barilla shells were victims of the raid,

" notes the regional daily.

A little later, at Leclerc de Foix, “

around fifty trolleys left the store in the space of half an hour.

About ten of them were filled to the brim with packets of water bottles or toilet paper

”.

What to prove wrong to the large distribution and the industrialists who the day before were betting on reasonable behavior, thanks to the lessons learned from the containment of the spring.

"

I do not believe in a movement of panic

", explained Miloud Benouada, the boss of Barilla in France.

We hope they realized that they continued to find pasta and tomato sauce on the shelves,

” commented at Système U.

To read also: Business leaders distraught at the idea of ​​a reconfinement from which they would not "recover"

Questioned by

Le Figaro

, distributors are categorical: stocks are sufficient to meet consumers' needs, even in the event of re-containment.

Source: lefigaro

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