Mixed results for this first weekend of reopening, post-containment, act II, of so-called non-essential shops.
If the traders were satisfied to have been able to raise the curtain from this Saturday, November 28, and not from December 1, thus ensuring an additional shopping weekend, the attendance was overall less than usual in this season.
“In city centers, we are recording activity declines of 25% to 30% compared to last year, but the data is complicated to compare, since a year ago, at the same time, we were in the middle of Black Friday, ”
notes Emmanuel Le Roch, the general delegate of the federation of specialized trade, Procos.
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In the big cities, in particular in Paris, Bordeaux and Nantes, this meeting with the consumers was spoiled because of the demonstrations against the global security law.
“These tensions generate very strong concerns, in a context where traders are already in difficulty.
It should not be that
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