Guest of the "Big Evening Newspaper" on Friday evening on Europe 1, former Secretary of State for Digital Mounir Mahjoubi discusses the negative impact that Amazon has on French jobs.

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A few days before the Black Friday, November 29, and the approach of Christmas, where e-commerce will cross the bar of 100 billion online purchases in a year in France, the former Secretary of State for Digital Mounir Mahjoubi publishes a vitriol analysis note on the economic consequences of the giant of online purchasing, Amazon: "Amazon: towards infinity and employment pole". According to him, the company "destroys more jobs than it creates".

Amazon "lost nearly 20,000 jobs to French activity"

Invited Grand Journal of the evening , the deputy of Paris explains that, even if the American firm has invested two billion euros since 2010 in France, and that it has given work to 9,300 French, it is "l net impact that matters ". "At the same time, it has lost nearly 20,000 jobs in the French business," he says. Not to mention that the firm "takes market share on traditional trade: a family who would buy in a trade near her home or on another site, will now do it on Amazon".

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"I want the French to know that today, when you buy on Amazon, you create fewer jobs than if you buy on Fnac-Darty, Cdiscount [French groups, ed], which have a positive impact on the market. employment in France, make online that has impact, "he says. If he does not call for a boycott, and ensures not to be against Amazon, the former Secretary of State for Digital explains on the other hand regret that "Amazon does not pay enough taxes" in France.

State must "regulate"

In order for Amazon's "net impact" in terms of jobs to change, Mounir Mahjoubi welcomes the Gafa tax voted this summer, calling it a "first step". For him, the state must "make regulations, as for supermarkets in the years 1980-1990". And to conclude: "Now, I want my consumption to be responsible, I will always buy at Amazon products that I do not find elsewhere, but overall the books, it's at the bottom of my house."