Coronavirus in France: in shops, adaptation to the curfew at 6 p.m.
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Galeries Lafayette closes at 6 p.m. this Saturday, January 16 in Biarritz (photo illustration).
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Since this Saturday, January 16, all French people must respect a curfew from 6 p.m.
Now, businesses close two hours earlier, which requires customers to adapt.
Report near Paris.
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The 6 p.m. curfew was already in effect in some of the departments currently most affected by the coronavirus.
But faced with still rising figures, the measure has been extended to the entire national territory.
In the vegetable section of a supermarket in Ivry-sur-Seine, Emma carefully chooses her leeks.
For her and her companion, the curfew disrupts their meals: “
We try to provide menus in order to do the shopping accordingly.
Maybe we will try to do shopping for two weeks than for a week, because it's true that, with the curfew, what is very annoying is especially at weekends, we enjoy less of Saturday
”.
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A few rays away, Magali selects several fruits.
It provides for less frequent races.
But will his carts be fuller?
"
É
possibly and also I will opt out of everything that is home delivery to compensate for the two hours less on weekdays possibly.
I think it's going to be an alternation between the two
”.
More clients
This reduction in hours has consequences for the organization and the customers, as Saïd, the manager explains:
“
Friday evening, we had more customers than usual.
And on Saturday morning, we had a little more people and that's why we opened a little earlier, so that there is a longer time slot.
Instead of opening at 10 a.m., we open at 9 a.m.
There, there are clients who usually spend the week, and there, they come on Saturdays
”.
The government is allowing itself two weeks to observe the effects of this curfew.
The aim is to avoid a new wave of the epidemic.
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