[PHOTOS] Large surfaces, SQDC and SAQ: too easy to shop with a fake passport

25Jan

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[PHOTOS] Large surfaces, SQDC and SAQ: too easy to shop with a fake passport

Just 15 minutes, a smartphone and zero dollars. That's all The newspaper needed to forge documents that allowed us to shop yesterday in six businesses requiring the vaccine passport. • Read also: Reinforcement security officers also in supermarkets • Read also: The vaccine passport in supermarkets: resigned customers and merchants “It's a real joke. The antivaccines know this secret and can live as if nothing had happened. No need to spend hundreds of dollars, “guaranteed a source, who refuses to identify himself in the report for fear of reprisals. The newspaper chose not to reveal the details of this ruse in order not to give ideas to the malicious people, but they were communicated to the authorities. Warned of this, the government later confirmed ...

The vaccine passport passes the test in shops

24Jan

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The vaccine passport passes the test in shops

The big chains protested, but in the end, apart from a few irritants, the first day of the imposition of the vaccine passport went well. • Read also: Allergic to the vaccine, she cannot receive her passport • Read also: Vaccination passport: an exception for construction contractors • Read also: A big box store in Gaspé does not require a vaccination passport... for now Quebec thus became the first jurisdiction in the world to refuse entry to stores larger than 1,500 m2 to non-vaccinated people. The government decree published Sunday evening stipulates that those who do not have the vaccine passport can still go to a supermarket to receive "a pharmaceutical service", but they must be "accompanied by an employee at all times". At the Walmart on rue Jea...

Vaccination passport in supermarkets: a rather calm first day in Mauricie

24Jan

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Vaccination passport in supermarkets: a rather calm first day in Mauricie

Like everywhere in Quebec, Monday was the first day that customers had to present their vaccination passport for big box stores in the Mauricie region and customers seemed to adjust well to the measure. Some businesses ask customers to plan their trips to avoid long lines outside. “Currently, we have a security guard with us precisely because we have a lack of personnel so that helps us and in addition if ever there were overflows, well he would be there. But for the moment, the clientele is very cooperative,” said the director of the Canac hardware store in Trois-Rivières, Daniel Vézina. An adjustment period is required for both merchants and customers. Many had also forgotten that the measure came into force on Monday. Luckily, it starts at the beginning ...

Allergic to the vaccine, she cannot receive her passport

24Jan

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Allergic to the vaccine, she cannot receive her passport

A citizen wishes to receive an exemption from the government and public health since she is not able to receive the vaccine and therefore a vaccine passport due to her allergy. • Read also: Against the vaccination of her children: an antivax mother dismissed in court • Read also: WHO sees possible end to acute phase of pandemic • Read also: How to keep morale up with this 5th wave? Even if the chances of being allergic to a substance found in vaccines against COVID-19 are very rare, Isabelle Castonguay-Côté is intolerant to polyethylene glycol and cannot obtain her vaccine passport. “We've known this for a long time because I've already had colonoscopies and there's this product in several products and I suffered a respiratory arrest. I am very very very...

Vaccination passport: an exception for construction contractors

24Jan

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Vaccination passport: an exception for construction contractors

Contrary to what was initially feared, construction contractors are not subject to the obligation of the vaccination passport in large-area hardware stores which have dedicated spaces for professionals. • Read also: A big box store in Gaspé does not require a vaccination passport... for now • Read also: Ready, not ready, we check: retail businesses must require the vaccine passport This is the exception granted to them by the Government of Quebec, following intense representations from the Quebec Association of Hardware and Building Materials (AQMAT). Thus, unvaccinated building contractors can continue to patronize building materials retailers larger than 1,500 square meters (16,000 sq ft), provided they use “their own accesses and non-public sections of ho...

The vaccine passport in supermarkets: resigned customers and merchants

24Jan

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The vaccine passport in supermarkets: resigned customers and merchants

Merchants and consumers welcomed with resignation the imposition of the vaccine passport in big box stores on Monday in Quebec. • Read also: Ready, not ready, we check the vaccine passport in retail stores • Read also: What will be the strategy to convince the unvaccinated? The Quebec channel Canac said it was disappointed with the entry into force of this new measure. “It is with great disappointment that we welcome this new measure. We had hoped until the last minute that hardware stores would still, and rightly, be considered an essential service,” said Patrick Delisle, Marketing Director. “Currently, our main fear is to harm our customers who have legitimate and pressing needs. Queuing at -30 degrees as is the case this morning (Monday) is nothin...

Vaccination passport in stores | Resigned customers

24Jan

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Vaccination passport in stores | Resigned customers

Since Monday, customers of big-box stores must present their vaccination passport before entering to shop. On that first day, as they lined up in the cold, consumers who were rummaging through their pockets or purses with their bare hands to pull out their phones and IDs had, for the most part, resigned themselves to follow this new rule. Posted at 12:34 p.m. Updated at 12:35 p.m. Nathaelle Morissette The Press At the entrance to the Costco store, located in the Central Market, a man, accustomed ...

France | D-Day for the vaccine passport, resigned restaurateurs

24Jan

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France | D-Day for the vaccine passport, resigned restaurateurs

(Paris) Five weeks after its announcement by the government, the vaccine passport replaced on Monday the old health passport, compulsory for those over 16 wishing to go to a restaurant or take the train, a disputed but smooth transition according to the testimonies collected in several cities. Posted at 11:20 a.m. Katia DOLMADJIAN, Elia VAISSIERE, Hélène DUVIGNEAU France Media Agency "For us, the vaccination pass does not change much," says Alain Deriot, manager of the Jour de Pêche restaurant in Lille, whose cust...

Retail businesses must require the passport

23Jan

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Retail businesses must require the passport

From today, supermarkets will have to demand the vaccine passport at the request of the government, which is increasingly tightening the screw on the non-vaccinated. • Read also: Shops open again on Sunday • Read also: Montreal: yet another demonstration against health measures • Read also: Extreme cold forcing solutions to be found in Mauricie “We hope that consumers will be patient and lenient with employees [...] They're just enforcing the rules to keep us open. It's not an easy time for anyone, ”said Karina Serei, senior director of operations and communications at the Conseil québécois de commerce de retail, on Sunday. As of today, expect lines outside certain businesses of 1,500 square meters or more, especially during the busy period. The new mea...