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Reinforcement security officers also in supermarkets
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Reinforcement security officers also in supermarkets

Security guards from the private sector, already present in SAQs, are now arriving in big-box stores, which complicates things in terms of recruitment. • Read also: The passport passes the test in shops • Read also: Vaccination passport: an exception for construction contractors • Read also: The vaccine passport in supermarkets: resigned customers and merchants “We are not in shortage of agents, but this demand means that yes, it is an additional challenge to recruit them”, summarizes Louis-Antoine Paquin, director of communications at Garda World. He says the company has deployed hundreds of agents since yesterday in "several banners of big box stores across Quebec", without wanting to name them. Garda also provides most of the 150 agents hired by the S...
Vaccination passport in supermarkets: a rather calm first day in Mauricie
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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 ...
The vaccine passport in supermarkets: resigned customers and merchants
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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...