“When they look at their cart, customers curse”: cashiers face the damage of inflation

2023-12-18 14:17:22

The owner and operator of the Super U in Mamers (Sarthe), Patrice Guérin, readily recognizes his “little habit”. He regularly collects small pieces of paper or post-its from the aisles of his store, on which customers have written their shopping lists. On one of these cards, which he shows us, a brioche bread for 1.59 euros, small Lu, U brand eggs, toothpaste, and also other items marked with a question mark red, because more expensive.

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“I collect more and more, which I pile in my drawer, because it moves me: these lists are a marker of our time, of the crisis we are going through,” explains this committed boss, keen of “local”, and who is aiming for a decarbonization label shortly for his store.