Question 29559 — commerce and crafts

Summary

Mr. Didier Martin questions the Minister of the Economy and Finance about a possible shift in the date of the 2020 summer sales. Initially scheduled from Wednesday June 24 to Wednesday July 28, 2020 in most departments, the sales will be a crucial period for the resumption of activity of merchants, particularly affected by the health and economic crisis. Having to close their points of sale from March 15, 2020, the latter will reopen their establishments from May 11, 2020 if health conditions permit. As part of this reopening, they will need adequate health and economic conditions so that their activity can regain new momentum. Thus, if the announcement of the end of confinement is very favorably received by the entire sector, certain concerns are emerging regarding the organization and calendar of the sales. Of Many federations and organizations are calling for a postponement of the start date of the sales, or even an extension of their duration. They fear that maintaining the initial date will encourage major retail players to practice aggressive discount policies (loss sales, private sales, etc.) with which they would be unable to compete. To fight against practices intended to oust them, they demand the implementation of strict supervision of commercial practices one month before the sales postponement date. Shifting the sales calendar, without however affecting the back-to-school shopping period, would also present other advantages for the sector. It would also give traders time to rebuild their cash flow by taking advantage of higher margins. It would finally respond to an imperative to public health by allowing sales to be organized in more satisfactory health conditions, once the first lessons of confinement have been learned. For these reasons, he would like to know if a postponement of sales is being considered by the Government in order to limit the economic impact of the health crisis on the activity of retailers.

Machine translation from French. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.