Saint-Étienne. School supplies: supermarket or stationery, which is really cheaper?

We've been seeing TV ads for back-to-school items since mid-July. In supermarkets, the products have been at the top of shelves since the beginning of summer. Stationery stores have also been running their back-to-school promotions for several weeks now. There's no doubt about it: next week, it's back-to-school time.

Everywhere, in the stores, it's bustling: excited children are looking for the cutest erasers. Bored teenagers are throwing duplicate copies and plastic sleeves into the shopping cart. And disillusioned parents are grumbling, "You can take any pen you want as long as it doesn't cost more than five euros."

On the shelves of stationery stores and supermarkets, hundreds of different products are displayed. Twelve different colors for the four-color pen. New highlighters...

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