The two-year extension of the exemption allowing the purchase of non-consumable food products immediately in supermarkets was adopted by the National Assembly but did not have time to pass through the Senate. The system will therefore no longer be able to be applied on January 1.
5.4 million French people currently use their “tickets-resto” to buy non-immediately consumable food products in the supermarket (flour, pasta, rice, meat, etc.). But government censorship calls this system into question.
Although its two-year extension of this exemption was adopted by the National Assembly, it did not have time to pass through the Senate. The system will therefore no longer be able to be applied on January 1.
This prospect is far from rejoicing consumers. “There are two solutions: less shopping or more spending on the standard of living, it’s borderline disgusting,” reacts one of them at the microphone of BFMTV.
“It’s a certain freedom that we are prevented from practicing,” adds another.
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Satisfied restaurateurs
The opinion is obviously diametrically opposed for restaurateurs who have long criticized this possibility offered to holders of meal vouchers.
“We are very happy. How can we accept buying a liter of milk or a kilo of pasta with a meal voucher? We understand that the French have a purchasing power problem but it is not by doing the pockets of restaurateurs that we are going to resolve it”, judges Franck Delvau, president of Umih Paris IDF (union of hoteliers and restaurateurs).
Remember that this exceptional measure was introduced by law in 2022 in the context of the Covid crisis and had already been extended for one year in December 2023 due to persistent inflation, despite criticism from restaurateurs.
If employees will therefore no longer be able to shop with meal vouchers from January 1, 2025, the system could be reintroduced during the debates as part of the next finance bill.
Olivier Chicheportiche Journalist BFM Business
