Paris, April 15, 2020. A man protected by a mask delivers an Amazon package in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic.

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  • The "Buy in Paris" project was voted in the Paris Council on Wednesday.

  • It aims to identify the products manufactured and marketed in Paris on a single digital platform and to facilitate the sale of these products.

  • The delivery should also be "respectful" of the rights of employees

Paris standing up against Amazon?

While confinement, the approach of the end of the year holidays and the decried Black Friday should make the cabbage fat of the company of Jeff Bezos, Parisian elected officials are trying to mobilize.

Tuesday, elected officials of the left and environmentalists like Anne Hidalgo (PS) or Eric Piolle (EELV), personalities from the world of culture and associations joined in a petition launched, to commit not to use the platform Amazon during the Christmas period.

This Wednesday, during the Paris Council, it was the Paris Councilor (PCF) Barbara Gomes, who decided with her political group to go further by proposing the creation of a platform called "Buy in Paris", " an anti-Amazon ”, explains the elected official.

"Let's create our respectful Parisian Amazon"

“Parisian traders are desperate and feel a real sense of injustice.

Amazon and its associates continue to see their profits increase at the expense of small businesses.

The city of Paris can play a leading role against this phenomenon.

Let's create our Parisian Amazon respectful of social and environmental law, ”she declared.

The amendment was voted on by the assembly.

The city of Paris says it is ready to support the emergence of such a platform.

A meeting should take place soon with Olivia Polski, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of trade and crafts.

For what operation?

"We don't need to buy on the other side of the world"

On this digital platform, you can find books, everyday objects, small furniture and even toys.

The "Buy in Paris" project aims to identify on a single digital platform the products manufactured and marketed in Paris and to facilitate the sale of these products, "which would benefit traders and consumers wishing to consume locally", notes the PCF group.

The executive, for its part, sees it as a platform that can "act as a market place to promote local commerce, crafts and manufacture in Paris", a label created in 2017.

“We don't need to buy halfway around the world.

Shops and merchants exist near us, which goes well with the idea of ​​the quarter-hour city.

We must promote Parisian commerce in all its dimensions, ”continues Barbara Gomes, with

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This platform would include geolocation of stores and inventory by theme and product.

All combined with a “respectful” delivery.

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“The idea is not to make deliveries under any conditions.

Deliveries will be made respecting labor and environmental rights.

And with soft mobility, ”continues Barbara Gomes.

This service would thus be provided by "delivery cooperatives" which "respect the rights of employees and provide them with the social protection to which they are entitled".

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