Guillaume Dominguez, edited by Gauthier Delomez 06:33, March 13, 2023

In the retail sector, 66% of workers, or nearly two out of three employees, say they are unable to last until retirement age because of the arduous nature of their tasks.

Europe 1 went to a supermarket, to meet these employees who are questioning themselves in the midst of reform.

Detergent canister in hand, Isabelle puts the new delivery on the shelves in a supermarket.

With sometimes more than five kilos per article, the task is exhausting.

"It's very physical. To wear sometimes, it's not easy. Water packs, parcels, pallets ... It's not an easy job", she explains at the microphone d'Europe 1. In the retail sector, you have to move quickly and put up with the mood of certain customers.

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Behind his box, Toufik is witness to it.

"They are a little hard on us, and a lot more with the increase (in prices). There are a lot of thefts, breakages... This work has become hard", confides the cashier.

Two out of three employees are unable to last until retirement

These two testimonies illustrate the difficulty of working in mass distribution, in a context of pension reform.

In this branch, 66% of workers, or nearly two out of three employees, say they are unable to hold out until this deadline in a survey published by Dares, the statistical service of the Ministry of Labour, and carried out in 2019. to 40,000 people.

This study reveals that nearly nine million people (nearly 40% of employees), all sectors combined, share this feeling of "unsustainability of work".

Interviewed by Europe 1, Laurent has been working in shelving for 25 years and sees it in his team.

"All the 50-year-olds I know, almost all of them have back problems, fatigue, disabilities," he says.

"And I completely understand", continues Laurent, "because I do not see how we are going to work at 64 in a department, like that, with stress and fatigue. It's impossible", blows the employee , in reference to the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 wanted by the government.

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According to the study, this feeling is born earlier and earlier.

In total, 59% of those under 30 are already anticipating a career change.