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hugo7
You lot don't know you're born.
In France banks charge for debit cards, which means nobody has them. Cash is still very much a thing. Cheque books are free, so we're still in the age of old biddies slowly writing cheques. Or finding the exact change, and there's always some vouchers, and a conversation with the till lady that goes on for hours. Also people fill their shopping bags as they go round, then empty them onto the conveyor, then fill them again on the other side. Self-service tills are rare. And supermarkets seem to have a policy of not restocking popular things, just letting them run out for weeks.