After bars, restaurants, hospitals and transport, the use of the health pass has been extended since Monday to large shopping centers in the Paris region and in the south of France, marked by a high incidence rate of the coronavirus.
A measure imposed by the prefects, on government recommendations.
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More than a hundred shopping centers and stores are now subject to the health pass as of Monday.
A device that intervenes according to the recommendations of the government which asked the prefects to impose it for surfaces of more than 20,000 m2 in the departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 per 100,000 inhabitants over a week.
In Paris, where the incidence threshold is lower, the health pass has nevertheless been introduced for five department stores (Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, BHV, Le Bon Marché and la Samaritaine) and three shopping centers in the capital.
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In the Beaugrenelle shopping center, in the 15th arrondissement of the capital, the entrance is very fluid.
Two security guards scan the QR codes presented by customers.
For Catherine and Martine, who came to do some shopping, taking out their health pass has become a habit.
"It's normal. If we are not careful, we will never get out of it," said the first.
"I do not see why we would do it in museums and not in shopping centers. It takes a few seconds and the most restrictive is especially for those who had not anticipated," the second adds.
"Not everyone is on the same footing"
For that, a screening tent was set up this Monday morning in the street.
In fifteen minutes, customers can therefore be tested in order to enter the shops.
And so far, only a few people have been turned away at the entrance.
Other clients like Kader, who is from Belgium, show their vaccination certificates a little reluctantly.
"Everyone is not on the same footing so it's a bit sad. I still find that freedom is diminishing," he said.
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Employees of the shopping center are not affected by the measure. It is only from August 30 that they will have to show a health pass to come to work. Four departments of Ile-de-France (Seine-Saint-Denis, Val d'Oise, Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine) exceeding the threshold have also published decrees establishing the health pass. The other departments concerned in France are the Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente-Maritime, Corse-du-Sud, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Haute-Savoie, Var and Vaucluse.