Forced to close at least for a month due to confinement, independent traders fear for their future, like Corinne.

This clothing store manager had to refuse deliveries, having too much stock on her hands. 

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On this first day of the new confinement, all "non-essential" businesses have drawn their curtains.

And for their managers, it is now the concern that dominates, especially in the clothing sector, which expects to lose up to 40% of its turnover.

Independent traders, for their part, fear for their survival, like Corinne, manager of a small clothing store in the Paris suburbs, whom Europe 1 has met. 

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The manager is forced to refuse a delivery, on the eve of closing for at least a month.

"Sir, I think I'm going to refuse the delivery. Look at all I have here, I can't take the goods. I'm going to have to pay for it, and when am I going to sell it especially? take this supplier but too bad, ”she said.

For Corinne, this refusal is a first in more than 30 years at the head of her shop.

The manager has too much stock on her hands: that of the first confinement, but also the new collection. "And that represents, in total, around 100,000 euros.

"I will end up with credits"

"It's suicide. There, it's for 4 to 5,000 euros. I can't take the goods. All you see there, the problem is that I ordered it before the Covid. So I couldn't cancel it. And the suppliers have all my payments. So here I am stuck. That's why in the spring, I had to make a loan, "she explains. 

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"Me, I was not far from retirement, I had never got into debt. I thought I would be quiet, sell my store. And in fact, I will end up with credits not possible", still laments Corinne.

What the manager now fears is that the confinement will be longer than expected, and that the balances will be maintained in early January.

She calls for outright cancellation.