No more going out to buy your wand every day. With the containment measures taken to curb the epidemic of coronavirus, shopping must now be strictly necessary, and the French adapt: if the sale of long-term products, such as pasta or rice, explodes, frequentation of bakeries , she, falls. Europe 1 saw it in Grandcamp-Maisy, in Normandy.
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150 to 50 baguettes per day
Located in the city center, Anne-Laure Cikalleski usually sells between 120 and 150 baguettes per day. Since confinement it is barely 50: customers are becoming increasingly rare, and those who move opt for breads that keep longer.
"Some people tell us: 'sorry, you only see us once a week ...'", says the baker, who says she understands "completely" the need for confinement. "There are a lot of elderly people who go out as little as possible."
A turnover between bakers
Then there are the customers who do a lot of grocery shopping, for example once a week. "There is everything on site," laments the trader. So they will take their bread, their newspaper, their butcher's shop, and not go to the small traders. "
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On the other side of the street, the second baker in the town makes the same observation. So both have developed a system. "We have to get along better than go to war", he testifies. "We decided to close two days each week: I close Monday and Tuesday and my colleague closes Wednesday and Thursday." One way to make sure you have, at least, all the customers of the day when the other is closed.