Third fall of the curtain.
Friday evening, traders from the 16 confined departments closed the doors of their shops.
110,000 businesses in all, clothing, jewelry or toy stores, whose activity is not considered essential by the government, and which will not see their customers at home for another month, if all goes well.
To close for the third time, it might have become routine.
This is another blow that many traders did not expect.
"
Those I meet are stunned
," notes Philippe Hourdain, the president of the Hauts-de-France chamber of commerce.
They thought that with the progressive vaccination of the population, we would get there without reconfiguring.
Closing today is psychologically exhausting. ”
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Deemed offensive by traders, the adjectives essential and non-essential have been banned from government vocabulary.
But the reality of a trade cut in two remains.
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