The recipe comes from China, it was imported and popularized by the Italians. However, in the midst of a coronavirus crisis, pasta has never had so much popularity. Empty department yesterday morning at Lidl’s Grand-Quevilly. “ There was everything except pasta “, assures a Rouennaise who posted a photo of the department on social networks.
Around noon yesterday at Auchan at Mont-Gaillard at Haven, one of the biggest stores of the brand in France by its turnover, the question comes up with several cashiers: ” You open Monday ? “And the answer is the same:” Well yes, why ? The stores do not close. Customers know this, but want to be reassured. It is perhaps for this reason that they come to stock up a little more than usual even if the attendance is, according to the regulars, the same as on a normal Saturday morning. Apart from the now classic toilet paper and pulp departments, and also those of handkerchiefs, nothing is missing.
Not a single customer admits their fear of missing out. Even if the pallets of pasta installed in the central aisle for two days leave no one indifferent. It’s smart commercially. “ It’s tempting and we say why not like that by the way “, justifies Pascal, who came with his family, who has just served himself pasta, when he had not planned this purchase. He nevertheless recognizes: ” There’s what you need at home, but it’s weird. It’s psychological. Other than that, we fill up like every Saturday with our two student children who are there this weekend. »At Leclerc’s Gonfreville-l’Orcher, the only shelf really devalued is that of chocolate bars, which perhaps says about the need to de-stress.
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“I admit, I bought more than usual”
Around 5 p.m., we line up at the cash desks at the Leclerc hypermarket in Rouen, in the heart of the Saint-Sever shopping center. The pasta department seems to have been taken over, like the rice department. Do not panic, pallets with dozens of packages of pasta were placed at the end of the gondola, in the middle of the store. Barely unwrapped, already purchased. Some consumers do not bother to open the plastic films and buy spaghetti for four kilos. What hold a seat. “ I did the shopping for the week, but I admit, I bought more pasta than usual “, smiles Marc.
And like pasta without sauce, it is not terrible, it is also the raid on the boxes of pulp and tomato sauce. Same thing for oil: “ Look, there is no more white vinegar “, underlines a visibly disappointed client.
At the breakfast counter, at the end of the afternoon, the most greedy have taken over the 1 kg jars of Nutella, only small formats are left.
“ It’s ridiculous to rob the shelves “, sighs a client, at the start of the evening in another Lidl in Rouen. No pasta – there are a few packets of lasagna left – no more flour either. Just a few cans of asparagus are left on the gondolas of canned vegetables.
From today, these supermarket aisles will become, in France too, the only place for socializing …
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