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Containment: toy merchants attack hypermarkets

2020-10-30T21:47:49.008Z


The industry federation has filed an appeal with the Council of State, denouncing unfair competition in the face of establishments that may


After the booksellers, it is the turn of the toy dealers to speak out against the terms of the confinement in force in the country since Friday.

The sector federation announced on Friday the filing of a summary before the Council of State against the sale of toys in hypermarkets, which can, unlike them, remain open during the new confinement.

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The reconfinement decree published on Thursday "generated a distortion of competition by providing for the closure of stores specializing in the sale of games and toys, while at the same time letting hypermarkets sell equivalent products in their shelves", accuses the Federation of Shops specializing in Toys and Children's Products (FCJPE) in a press release, confirming information from TF1.

"Clear violation of the principle of equal competition"

The FCJPE has decided to file a summary before the Council of State for "manifest violation of the principle of equal competition".

Toy stores are not on the list of so-called "essential" businesses authorized by the government to remain open during lockdown.

However, they can make deliveries or offer to pick up orders at the store door ("click and collect").

This decree will have "disastrous consequences for companies specializing in toys, which make more than half of their sales over the last three months of the year and represent 20,000 direct or indirect jobs in France", the FCJPE warns.

Booksellers, who also had to close shop, had also protested against the opening of the book and culture departments of supermarkets and specialized.

The Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Culture refused to open bookstores but announced on Friday that supermarkets should close their cultural shelves, "for the sake of fairness".

The FCJPE is co-chaired by Philippe Gueydon, manager of King Jouet, and Romain Mulliez, manager of the PicWicToys brand, who succeeded Toys'R Us in France.

Source: leparis

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