“
Since the start of the reconfinement, we have posted between 40 and 50% more turnover over one year,
” announced this morning Frédéric Duval, general manager of Amazon France on RMC.
The latter also defends itself from being a website "
which sells in France and which invests in France
".
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Regarding Black Friday, this vast promotional campaign which takes place at the end of November, "
it is a time when French entrepreneurs have prepared stocks and take the opportunity to sell them
", he says.
The latter claims to be "
attentive to what is happening
".
Could you decide to push him away?
"We
will see
" he replies.
He assures us that “
nothing is decided yet
”.
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In addition, the manager supports Amazon's strategy: “
Today 70% of businesses in Germany are digitized against only 30% in France, we want to help them.
We have built a digital accelerator that we are offering and we have lowered the online registration fees and are offering them over 3 months.
We will offer them training, we will explain all the things that work on our site.
We will put more than 300 people at their disposal to help them,
”says the boss of Amazon.
Finally he claims to be “
in disagreement with the accusations of the European Commission.
Today, we support 150,000 small and medium-sized businesses in Europe: we support them in an extraordinary way and I want to tell the Commission that we are doing exactly the opposite of what it accuses us of doing
”.
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