Food prices show a rise of 8.7% over one year. No product appears to be spared by this increase.
Outside a supermarket in Île-de-France, several customers tell franceinfo that they regularly steal food. They link these thefts to rising food prices and the need to eat.
These admissions reveal an openly acknowledged practice: some French people admit taking items from supermarkets in order to eat, as the cost of food continues to rise.
The people interviewed outside the store do not describe an isolated act. They say they steal regularly, primarily for economic reasons.
One of them said:"There would be plenty of ways to justify it politically, but I also do it for economic reasons.".
Stores are strengthening their measures. In another supermarket, surveillance cameras are already installed.
In that same store, some products are placed in locked display cases, in addition to the cameras.