How many children? How many smiles, laughter, joys, tears, scenes? Impossible to count: the carousel has been installed there for at least thirty years and no one has thought to calculate the number of little heads it has turned. Today, there is only one certainty: the little horses and the planes will leave on May 16 and the shopping center of the Auchan hypermarket in Buchelay, near Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), will say goodbye to its Carrousel.
The shiny plastic green tickets, the catchy music, the three minutes of revolution, all these little things will fall into the souvenir aisle. In recent weeks, for hypermarket customers, “the Auchan merry-go-round which is closing” has occupied as much space as conflicts in the world or the price of gasoline.