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When a parking lot in Paris is used to deliver fruit and vegetables

2021-05-03T17:45:43.211Z


Faced with the decrease in the number of cars in the city center, underground car parks have adapted to other activities.


The scooter in the colors of Monmarché.fr rushes into the Indigo underground car park on the Ile de la Cité, in Paris.

His mission?

Load orders for fresh produce - Monmarché.fr is the website of Grand Frais, the ultra-fresh fruit, vegetables, fish and meat brand - and deliver them to the center of the capital.

“We wanted to develop in Paris, but the price of land made it impossible,

analyzes Gilles Raison, managing director of Monmarché.fr.

This is why the solution of a workshop for preparing orders and storing fresh products in a car park appeared to us to be a good solution. ”

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delivery, a scourge for the environment?

What to find a common interest with Indigo, the world number one of the car parks, which must face the decrease in the number of cars in the city center.

A phenomenon which weighs on the filling rate of its car parks.

"We have large spaces in the heart of cities,"

explains Sébastien Fraisse, General Manager France of Indigo.

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Source: lefigaro

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