Over the past few weeks, France has extended COVID pass requirements to nearly all basic venues including bars, cafés, restaurants, cinemas, trains, stadiums, and gyms. Supermarkets are the latest addition to this list.
They were elementary and homemade at first before becoming commercialized and mass-produced, but plastic dividers became as commonplace during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as the paper masks that now litter city streets.
Supermarkets all over the country are stocking up on many of their food items in anticipation of a surge in food prices. Many supermarket executives are warning that the upcoming inflation might lead to some of the highest price increases in recent memory.