It is one of the unexpected collateral damages of the coronavirus. Despite the widespread containment and the closure of almost all non-food stores, e-merchants are not all profiting from the Covid-19 epidemic. Quite the contrary. A study by the sector federation, Fevad, highlights that most are suffering from the crisis. And this, sometimes almost as much as physical distributors.
Three out of four e-merchants thus deplore a drop in their sales since March 15, the date of the closure of most physical non-food stores. For half of them, sales fall by more than 50%. Their financial situation has deteriorated to the point where two thirds of e-merchants are now on short-time working.
" This period is negative for almost all the players ," deplores Marc Lolivier, general delegate of Fevad. Food specialists are the only ones who are not negatively impacted . ” In total, only 18% of actors
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