An article published on France Info denounces the stranglehold of Amazon during the pandemic

Due to book sales on Amazon at least 20% of bookstores are at risk of closing by the end of the year.

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“Amazon carries a model of civilization that is no longer possible”.

It is the cry of alarm of a call published on the site of the channel of TV France Info this Monday morning.

The text calls for a tax to be imposed on the exponential turnover of this juggernaut of online commerce, and others like him, the big winners of the pandemic, to the detriment of local businesses.

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The GCT or FSU unions, the Greenpeace organizations, Attac, the Confédération paysanne, but also elected officials, booksellers and publishers, a total of 120 signatories, want to " 

stop Amazon before it is too late 

".

They denounce the

 considerable

damage

" to employment and the environment due to the hegemony of the company, champion of tax optimization, whose online sales have exploded this year with the health crisis.

Its net sales reached $ 96 billion and its profits tripled in the third quarter.

Likewise, the fortune of his boss,

Jeff Bezos

, exceeded 200 billion dollars.

If the expansion of the Seattle firm is not stopped, denounces the forum, " 

100,000 jobs could be destroyed everywhere in France

 ".

The signatories also accuse Emmanuel Macron of “ 

rolling out the red carpet

 ” at Amazon, by prohibiting “ 

everyone from selling non-essential products except ... to the giants of online sales! 

". 

The Covid crisis should serve us to thoroughly rethink our modes of consumption and social life, not to sink us into a world of predatory overconsumption 

", add the signatories.

They also intend to mobilize against the stranglehold of Amazon " 

by November 27, date of Black Friday

 ."

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