An assumed circumvention of the health pass.
The Leclerc hypermarket in Roques-sur-Garonne, in the suburbs of Toulouse, is part of the list of shopping centers of more than 20,000 m2 subject to the health pass.
But it is possible to access the shelves of the store without presenting a QR code.
This requires, as the establishment's Facebook page specifies since Monday morning, to enter through door 4 which provides direct access to the supermarket without going through the shopping arcade.
"Today if our 13,500 m2 store was not backed by the shopping mall, we could welcome our customers without health pass control", is justified to AFP Jacques Blimont, the director of the hypermarket who has therefore decided to correct what he considers “a distortion of competition”.
He doesn't want to bring himself to "watch consumers go to competing stores near us to find products they could buy from us."
A high incidence rate of Covid-19
The Haute-Garonne prefecture has so far not reacted to this particular case.
The prefects are required to impose the health pass in areas of more than 20,000 m2 in departments where the incidence rate of Covid-19 exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In Haute-Garonne, it was 388 at the end of last week, and 449 in the metropolis of Toulouse.
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