About 400,000 companies will reopen Monday on the first day of deconfinement, including stores located in large shopping centers, except those in Ile-de-France, said Thursday the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire.
On the first day of deconfinement on May 11, "400,000 companies representing 875,000 jobs will reopen," said Bruno Le Maire during a government press conference at the Matignon Hotel on the terms of the exit of eight weeks of containment that shut down entire swathes of the economy.
Shopping centers will be able to live except in Ile-de-France
"These are 77,000 hairdressing salons, 33,000 clothing stores, 15,000 florists, 3,300 booksellers who will reopen, it is social and economic life that will be able to restart," said the minister.
Shopping centers of more than 40,000 square meters in France, the reopening of which was uncertain, "may reopen" on May 11 "in agreement with the prefects, except in Ile-de-France" due to persistent health risks, a -he adds. Indeed in the Paris region, "we believe that health risks (...) lead us to postpone their opening," said Bruno Le Maire.
All shops except bars and restaurants
Before the National Assembly on April 28, the Prime Minister announced that all businesses should reopen on May 11, except bars and restaurants, but he was less categorical concerning large shopping centers, likely to encourage customers coming from afar and brewing a lot of people.
The sector federation, the National Council of Shopping Centers (CNCC), promised last week to "understand the reasoning and calculation methods used and then provide the answers expected by the prefects".
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