“On the 15th, we have nothing left”: inflation makes the end of the month even more difficult

His two shopping bags quickly stuffed into the trunk of his car, a forty-year-old, disillusioned and in a hurry, confides: “The end of the month? What do you want me to tell you… It’s hard. He won’t say more. This is because the place does not lend itself to confidence. On this huge car park in the Ville-du-Bois shopping center (Essonne), posted along the RN 20, about twenty kilometers south of Paris, a small drizzle comes in intermittently to tickle the faces of customers who hurry out of the Carrefour hypermarket.