After the health pass to access certain places, commercial discounts for only people vaccinated against Covid-19? In recent days, Internet users have been outraged by a series of discount coupons. Under the title “Special offers vaccinated, solidarity rewarded”, a discount of 5 euros at the hairdresser or 10% at La Grande Récré.
“Let us note the list of all these collaborating brands: we will remember them when the coronacircus is finished …”, comments a Twitter user, while others call for a boycott of brands such as McDonald’s or Claire’s. “I won’t buy anything from them anymore !! It is my solidarity gift to me, do not thank me, ”wrote one of them.
“Special offers vaccinated, solidarity rewarded”
Note the list of all these collaborating brands: we will remember them when the coronacircus is over …#BoycottCollabos pic.twitter.com/uFAqBs3Vdo
– Yoann B. (@Yoann_IV) September 10, 2021
Are these promotions genuine? We take stock.
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The prospectus does exist, but it is distributed in a very specific context. Since the opening of the vaccination center in the commercial area of the Jeu de Paume in Beauvais, on August 30, this series of promotions has been distributed to patients just after the injection.
The reductions therefore concern the brands present in the shopping center. “It is an initiative of the traders”, explains to 20 minutes Eline Watbot, the director of the gallery. “We realized that the people who come to be vaccinated have never set foot on our premises. It is therefore a question of retaining potential future customers. “His colleague Guillaume Sergeant, head of the shopping center, specifies that the Hauts-de-France regional health agency (ARS) supports actions in favor of vaccination“ whatever they may be ”.
A position confirmed by the agency at 20 minutes : “The ARS works closely with local actors to strengthen vaccination against Covid-19 and generally supports any initiative that local actors can put in place on their territory to encourage vaccination in based on their knowledge of the territory, of course within the limits of legality. “On this last point, the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir confirms that the commercial action of the Jeu de Paume is legal,” unless it is the medical profession that practices this distribution.
“This prospectus was relayed on social networks, taken out of context, and was therefore very badly received,” laments Eline Wabtot, director of the gallery. “Our role is not to influence people about vaccines. This is why we do not distribute these reductions upstream of the vaccination. “In reality, it is above all a marketing operation aimed at attracting customers to a half-empty shopping center, as recently pointed out by our colleagues from the Parisian.