Paris, Monoprix supermarket $7000 unpaid, shoppers claim poverty

AC action for the Unemployed
French Champagne socialism

A group called AC "Action contre le chomage", "Action against unemployment" confiscated in a shopping cart  products of daily need as well as Champagne, Salmon and other products without paying. Goods redistributed for the Poor.

The campaigners said they want the People hit by the crsis can celebrate New Year in dignity.

The "Autoreduction program" took place in the Monoprix Super market (like Publix US) in Paris,
Grenoble, Lile, Rennes. The AC shoppers filled the Caddy distributed a flyer to the visitors of
the supermarket. Then talked to the Manager to let them go. No violence so far.

Police present in one market, no action
In one market the police was present during the action. What did they do? Nothing

Monoprix declares 5000 Euros / $7000 loss
The luxury Super market gets a first taste of the crisis to come.
Not many customers but free shoppers leave the management  with
with the tendency to avoid publicity and let AC actors shop for free.

The reason for unemployment support

The french society is deeply divided , 10 super rich families with Finance holdings paying mostly no tax at all and the Rest. The rest, first 5 million record government employees with good salaries.
Now the free rest, restaurant service people, hotels, all bad paid. Many fired at the end of the
summer season. Big companies close the doors with over aged products. No innovation finance from the Banks for small entrepreneurs and so on.

Result, nice awareness action, but all pay
The logic behind,  the french supermarkets collect the people's money, the margin's are
incredible up to 300%. The unjustified price increase on basic wine for example 30% in
one year. We have enough of this in the country, so why? The answer behind the Supermarkets
no real owners but "sub-prime" speculator losers. For example Carrefour rider financed his
buy-in with last available borrowed money from New York. We the customers pay the 10%, now up to 20% risk credit rates with our products. The "owner" a french luxury chain L.....

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