The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Are there too many stores in France?

2020-09-21T16:38:10.864Z


ANALYSIS - The rise of online commerce, changes in consumption habits or even the desertification of city centers are accelerating the transformation of physical commerce.


Commercial courts have become familiar with the distribution industry.

Since the start of the health crisis, the brands have been parading there at a regular pace.

Camaïeu, Naf Naf, La Halle, Alinéa, Orchestra, André or very recently the Kidiliz group of children's clothing (Catimini, Z, Absorba) have been placed in receivership.

Several of them have already changed hands.

The signs, for the moment, are not disappearing.

There are always candidates to take them back ... cut off from a part, often large, of their fleet and their employees.

The less profitable outlets are sacrificed, in the hope of saving the brand and the rest of the network.

Read also:

Food e-commerce: the difficult quest for profitability online

Many other brands are reducing their number of stores on their own.

The toy specialist PicWicToys, for example, will close twenty-three, C&A, thirty, as announced last year, and Gap several of its Parisian stores.

The fate of these companies, forced to downsize, he prefigures

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 89% left to discover.

Subscribe: 1 € the first month

Can be canceled at any time

Enter your email

Already subscribed?

Log in

Source: lefigaro

All business articles on 2020-09-21

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.