The pressure is mounting.
Since the announcement of confinement, the anger of the 200,000 closed businesses has swelled.
Florists, toy or clothing stores, bookstores, jewelry stores, perfumers ... many shout out their indignation at being deemed "non-essential" and some refuse to lower the curtain while Fnac, Leroy Merlin or supermarkets can remain open and sell toys, clothes, flowers ...
"There is a problem of acceptability of confinement, slips a relative of the head of state.
In the spring, people were afraid and confined themselves.
This time around, by repeating:
Learn to live with the virus
, there is a change of mind.
You add to that the French egalitarian passion and you have an explosive cocktail.
It was not anticipated.
“In Bercy, however, we alerted Matignon and the Elysee to the fact that VSE-PME were on edge.
In vain.
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But things could change in the days to come.
This Sunday, a meeting is scheduled in Matignon with trade unions, mass distribution, Medef ... "We will see if there are immediate decisions but the idea is rather to agree to be ready in fifteen days ”, slips a source close to Matignon.
The objective: to defuse the timer of social discontent as quickly as possible.
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Because the atmosphere hardens.
More and more mayors - in Yerres, Perpignan, Chalon-sur-Saône, Aubusson, Brive, etc. - have issued decrees authorizing the opening of shops in their commune, denouncing the "inequality" of treatment in the face of the great distribution and online sale.
In Bourg-en-Bresse, the mayor has decided to close the “non-essential” departments of supermarkets.
The prefectures have already requested the withdrawal of these decrees.
"If there is no relaxation of the measures by the middle of next week, the government will have to manage 10,000 orders of mayors, warns Philippe Laurent, the LR mayor of Sceaux and president of the Center-Ville association moving.
It will be the sling!
And that will leave resentment.
Especially since the inhabitants are behind the traders… ”
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According to him, Bercy would push to review the copy.
And allow traders to open for a few hours a day, or by appointment.
“When you see the crowd in supermarkets, you wonder why the shoe store is closed,” he tackles.
Fnac punished, Amazon has free rein
This Friday evening, in an attempt to put an end to a day of protest around bookstores, the government announced the closure of the cultural departments of supermarkets and Fnac stores "for the sake of fairness".
But the decision has not extinguished the fuse: dozens of petitions, press releases from artists or publishing houses are calling for the reopening of bookstores so as not to penalize them against Amazon.
The digital giant, which tripled its sales in the third quarter, is at the center of the disputes.
Because with the shops closed, Amazon could win the Christmas holidays.
The platform, which launched a “Black Friday ahead of time” before confinement, inviting the French to buy their Christmas gifts in advance, agreed to end its… communication campaign.