With the closing of the markets, small direct sales producers and market gardeners have to adapt. And one of the solutions found is home delivery. A new job and a real challenge for these traders whose contact details are published on social networks or by town halls.

With the containment measures linked to the coronavirus, small direct sales producers and market gardeners must adapt so as not to lose all their goods, some of which are perishable. Europe 1 met with traders who are embarking on home delivery in the Arras and Béthune region, to avoid dead loss.

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Market gardener in the Arras region, Thierry is reorganizing in an emergency to organize his home deliveries tomorrow. "I will take orders from people. Prepare everything in the crates with their name and address and then I will deliver them," he explains. Deliveries which guarantee a minimum turnover for these private market traders. Christelle will thus be able to sell off her production of butter and dairy products from her breeding: "It is absolutely vital, the costs will fall and we cannot remain without income. If we do not work, we have nothing. "

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"We must be of service to customers"

Thibault also sees it as a way to build customer loyalty. "I have elderly people who, with the current situation, could not move so they could not come to the market. They feed us all year round, now it is the opposite, we must return ultimately customer service, "he said.

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Miles ahead that fruit and vegetable merchant Kevin even sees as a kind of mission. "We have twice as many jobs. But I don't care if it lasts two months I will make deliveries for two months."

And for each delivery, the traders promise to take all precautions. All barrier gestures are of course respected.

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