• The association of traders wishes to alert "on the negative effects induced" by the demonstrations against the health pass, which take place every Saturday.

  • "There is a kind of double penalty for traders: having to set up the health pass while suffering a loss of flow," said its president.

They ask that the event take place "under the best conditions".

Friday and Saturday, it is the great unpacking of the re-entry of traders in downtown Nantes.

On the first day indoors and the second in the streets, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., around a hundred shops will offer their customers good deals, before giving way to the new collection.

But a few days before the event, the Plein center association fears that everything will not go as planned.

“Since the second half of July, Nantes city center has again seen demonstrations every Saturday.

Plein Center wants to alert on the negative effects induced by these mobilizations ”, warns Teddy Robert, the president.

A "double penalty"

If he does not wish to take a position for or against the health pass, Teddy Robert does not deny the consequences that the device has on frequentation of shops and restaurants, described by 60% of members.

But he also notes a drop in customers on Saturdays, due in particular, according to him, to the cuts to the tram.

"There is therefore a kind of double penalty for traders: having to set up the health pass while suffering a loss of flow, in particular because of the demonstrations".

As claimed on several occasions in the past, the Plein Center association, which once again claims to be "hard hit", asks that "the city center be better protected".

“The route of the demonstrations should be known in advance and modified, so that it is not always the city center that suffers the consequences.

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Last Saturday, some 3,000 people walked through the streets of Nantes for the eighth week of mobilization.

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