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Will it be the worst Tuesday ever, the day of the Grave strike? ?

First of all, let's eat, with our homemade dumplings (this time with lots of veggies, including spring onions, Chinese cabbage, and cabbage). Anyway, today France is on another Grave strike, with all kinds of unions participating. First the national railway, local and suburban lines, the metro, buses, airplanes, teachers, etc. (Naturally, those who are not participating in the strike are still at work, so suburban lines are running at reduced speeds). Then, in the afternoon, there will be a Manifesto protest in Paris. This time, from Montparnasse to Place d'Italie, I also received an email from the Japanese Embassy in France asking people to be careful not to go near the area. I feel more sorry for the people in the shopping district. Anyway, the media has been making a fuss about Grave strikes since the morning, and some of them are saying it will be the worst Tuesday ever. It makes me worry about what will happen when I hear the stations saying ``It's the 10th''. Just as the garbage collection trucks in Paris were saying ``Grève'', Gokuraku Tombo Oban saw from the window that the garbage collection truck had just come and cleared away the garbage. It seems that the garbage collection trucks in Massy are not going on strike, and on the commuter route to the B suburban line that the Obans use, there were people walking to work as usual. Naturally, the B suburban line is running at reduced speeds, so people have to get to work even if they are late. (When Gokuraku Tombo Oban was working before, even if there was a strike and trains were running at reduced speeds, I still went to work - it was super packed). I wonder if the pension reform bill currently being debated in the French Senate will pass, with some amendments? It's still unclear - commentators on the various media outlets are making a lot of noise and discussing the issue lively, but in the end, what the French are concerned about is not the pension issue, but economic issues, rising prices due to soaring energy prices and the decline in purchasing power. On top of that, there are concerns that a strike will only worsen the economy - so when it comes to who will gain from this strike, some have even said that in the end, neither the unions nor the government will gain anything, and that it will be the French themselves who will suffer - how realistic is that? Still, those who are adamant that union activity will continue the strike until the government withdraws its reform proposals, but it remains to be seen what will happen - more importantly, it is the fact that, at the request of the government to combat the rising prices, a major French supermarket has begun a voluntary price hike. So, each supermarket selects 200 items (naturally, mainly everyday items) and keeps the prices down. When the campaign started, Luclec Supermarket, which sells items at low prices at large supermarkets, released a price comparison with other large supermarkets. It's true that Luclec is cheap, but I wonder who did the detailed research and how they did it. It's really detailed. For example, compared to the discount supermarket on the far left, Riedl, it is 2.0% more expensive with 474 items, while Ocean, the supermarket my wife usually goes to, is 10.7% more expensive with 3,983 items. It's almost the same with Califour, and Super Casino on the far right, is 33.3% more expensive with 1,454 items. But if you want to know more, you should search on the Luclec website. I suppose you can certainly select the items you want to buy and look them up. The problem is, Gokuraku Tombo Oban, there is no Luclec supermarket nearby! It's a hassle to go by bus, so in the end, it's better to do your everyday shopping nearby, even if it's a little more expensive. Anyway, it's almost lunchtime, so I'll stop here for now, until next time.