Edit of August 17 at 11:50 am: The hypermarket has become compliant after a formal notice from the prefecture
An assumed circumvention of the health pass. The Leclerc hypermarket in Roques-sur-Garonne, in the suburbs of Toulouse, is part of the list of shopping centers of more than 20,000 m2 subject to the health pass. But he allowed his customers on Monday to access the shelves of the store without presenting a QR code. It was necessary for this, as specified
Facebook page from the establishment since Monday morning, enter through door 4 and thus directly access the supermarket without going through the shopping arcade.
“Today if our 13,500 m2 store was not backed by the shopping mall, we could welcome our customers without health pass control”, explained to AFP Jacques Blimont, the director of the hypermarket. who had decided to correct what he considers to be “a distortion of competition”. He didn’t want to bring himself to “watch consumers go to competing stores near us to find products they could buy from us.”
Formal notice
But the prefecture of Haute-Garonne said Monday evening to have noted an infringement in the hypermarket of Roques-sur-Garonne. She put the establishment on notice to comply within 24 hours. He performed this Tuesday morning.
The prefects are required to impose the health pass in areas of more than 20,000 m2 in departments where the incidence rate of Covid-19 exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Haute-Garonne, it was 388 at the end of last week, and 449 in the metropolis of Toulouse.