Paris — The French government has implored supermarkets to refrain from the kind of promotional deals that have led to in-store scuffles over cut-price jars of Nutella, a minister said on Wednesday. Videos of French shoppers jostling as they tried to grab heavily discounted tubs of the chocolate-hazelnut spread in Intermarché stores have gone viral over the past week. "I met with the director of Intermarché yesterday," economy minister Bruno Le Maire told RTL radio, as his government prepared to unveil a bill later on Wednesday that will tighten rules on supermarket promotions. "I told him that this must be stopped — we can’t have scenes like this every few days in France." Intermarché sparked the shopping frenzy last Thursday when it slashed the price of a 950g pot of Nutella — a favoured breakfast spread in France — from €4.50 ($5.60) to €1.41. The three-day promotion prompted shoving and even full-blown fights in several stores, with one worker likening the scenes to "an orgy". I...
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