Question 17078 — commerce and crafts

Summary

Mr. Emmanuel Duplessy draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the worrying acceleration in the disappearance of artisanal bakeries throughout the country. While the Government regularly presents the economic situation of artisanal baking as generally favorable, establishment closures are increasing in many territories. Nearly 62% of French municipalities today do not have a bakery and two out of three municipalities no longer have any local shops. In many areas, residents have to travel more than seven kilometers to access a bakery, revealing a loss of access to an essential daily service and a weakening of social ties. These situations, far from being isolated, result in a progressive disorganization of the local commercial network on a national scale. This situation results from the lasting combination of rising costs of energy, raw materials, payroll costs and recruitment difficulties, to which is added a drop in profitability which is now weakening even viable companies. Thus, despite the existence of public support systems, the crisis experienced by the artisanal bakery can no longer be seen as cyclical, but rather as structural. Also, he asks how the Government explains that the existing measures do not make it possible to halt this dynamic of disappearance of artisanal bakeries and what structural adaptations of its support policy it intends to undertake to guarantee the economic sustainability of these companies and the maintenance of a network of proximity throughout the territory.

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