2023-08-14 04:20:00
A mountain of cured ham in carefully stacked trays, olives, bottles of alcohol… At the exit of this hypermarket in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), there is an air of meal to the sound of cicadas in the refueling carried out by Jacques and his relatives.
“Yes, it’s a real holiday trolley,” laughs this Parisian on vacation in the seaside resort. The 30-year-old hasn’t really taken stock of his racing session. Either way, it’s salty. “It’s hard to compare. I can see that it is more expensive. I don’t have too much money, I have been restricting less essential things for some time, like clothes, ”he confides.
A little further on, in the parking lot of this Carrefour, with their trunk full, a young couple from Lyon came to spend their holidays in the town, with two children – 1 and a half and 3 years old -, think no less . “Everything is too expensive, comments Madame. For most products, we choose first-price brands. In the summer, we try to eat a little more fish, we have ice cream, but it’s much more expensive here than at home. »
Does this mean that the Côte d’Azur would charge higher prices than the rest of France? Possible, believe Aurora, 26, and her husband Thibaut, 31, two Alsatians who came to spend nine days with the Antibes grandmother of their little girl, Tïana. “Feta is more than 4.5 euros, against 3.40 in our city, she notes. Well, I won’t take it all summer. There, we have some gifts for the family: olives, lemonade, but we are careful. »
“I have it for 80 euros and I have nothing in my trolley”
A precaution in the purchases of which James, a forties of Vallauris Golfe-Juan (Alpes-Maritimes), made his daily life. “Today, I allowed myself a little extra to please us, because we are invited, by choosing a strawberry tart at 7 euros. But look, I’ve got it for 80 euros, with a bit of Gruyere, drinks, several melons on sale and I have nothing in my cart. We deprive ourselves of meat, no longer eat appetizer biscuits… Everything has increased so much. I even recently had a second job in the evening, in addition to my salary as a caregiver, to cope! “testifies the forties in the company of his young teenager, Iliès.
“It is sure that everything took a slap like fruits and vegetables, analyzes Régis, a Francilien on vacation in Cannes. We have a nice quality of life, which doesn’t prevent us from reducing our meat consumption in recent months. With a trolley costing 300 euros, we lasted ten to fifteen days. This is no longer the case. This summer, however, he will not change his racing habits. “We traditionally buy more rosé,” he laughs. Except that I will no longer go to the supermarket where I just made the first supply. We will give preference to local supermarkets. It will be more expensive but we won’t get stuck in traffic anymore to enjoy the holidays! »
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