"When I opened the mail sent by EDF at the end of October, I took a blow to the head".
Behind the counter of her bakery, Nathalie tries to hide her anxiety in front of her customers.
A baker for seven years with her husband Jean-Marc in Feucherolles (Yvelines), the forties will see her electricity bill jump by… 1,000% from March 2023. “We will go from 3,000 euros to 30,000 euros per month of electricity.
I don't know at all what will become of us…”, is alarmed Nathalie who confides that she is simply “disgusted”.
With the rise in energy prices, already well underway this year, the year 2023 risks being a veritable “annus horribilis” for most small traders, starting with bakers, who are large consumers of electricity.
Faced with the explosion in prices and despite the aid promised by the State, many of them risk going out of business.
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Hands in his kneading machine, Jean-Marc only thinks about that.
From morning to night.
“Even with the 35% state aid, we will never get there.
Especially since the price of raw materials has already increased, I will not continue to work like crazy to get into debt.
So if nothing is done for us, it's not worth it.
I'm putting the key under the door and I'm changing jobs,” says the baker, announcing that he will increase the price of his baguette from January by at least 10 cents so as not to sink immediately.
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