Commerce in Paris affected by modifications in consumption | EUROtoday

{A photograph} of Parisian commerce post-health disaster. The survey carried out by the Parisian Urban Planning Workshop (APUR), in partnership with the City of Paris and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was introduced on Thursday January 11. It has been carried out each three years because the yr 2000, from a “census taken on foot of all premises on the ground floor having a window and access from the public space”.

Successive confinements and journey restrictions, teleworking, discount in vacationer flows, riots, buying energy disaster and wave of enterprise failures, notably in textiles: all these components have impacted, during the last three years, the sector in a metropolis ​​the place the density of amenities stays very excessive (28 companies per 1,000 inhabitants) and vital employment. This space concentrates greater than 185,000 salaried positions – as many as within the lodge and catering business –, i.e. “around 20% of Parisian jobs”specifies the examine.

The APUR firstly notes that the variety of shops “is holding up after three difficult years”, with 60,846 companies recorded in 2023, or 1.4% lower than throughout its earlier survey in 2020, within the midst of a pandemic. It additionally observes that the variety of vacant premises has, in three years, elevated by solely 0.7 factors, going from 10.2% to 10.9%, a phenomenon that the APUR attributes to Covid- 19.

Nevertheless, the Parisian industrial cloth was marked, throughout this era, by quite a few developments emblematic of modifications in consumption. Starting with a “strong increase in the number of food businesses”, illustrated by the set up of 310 new factors of sale within the capital (+ 4%). These are primarily specialised companies resembling wine retailers (+61 factors of sale), greengrocers (+55), pastries (+52), supermarkets (+18)… and never ensuing from the enlargement of the community of massive manufacturers.

New wants

The APUR additionally notes a “virtual stagnation in large-scale food distribution for three years”which is accompanied by a “redistribution of stores between large groups” and the event of pedestrian drives, the place Parisians come to gather the groceries they’ve ordered on the Internet. In Paris, Casino, with its Monoprix and different Franprix, holds a 54.5% market share amongst main manufacturers, forward of Carrefour (21.2%) and Auchan (4.5%).

New wants, elevated dematerialization of exchanges in providers and transition to tender mobility are all phenomena which have had repercussions on Parisian industrial amenities. Result: 77 fewer financial institution branches out of the 1,100 current in 2020 (− 7%); 88 extra walk-in medical places of work or laboratories than the two,100 current in 2020 (+ 4%); 283 new companies devoted to well-being (magnificence salons, nail salons, CBD, and so on.), a rise of 15%. Finally, there are 39% extra shops (+ 69 companies) promoting, repairing and renting bicycles, linked to the evolution of bicycle utilization within the capital, and 9% garages, dealerships and fewer fuel stations. In complete, 67% of Parisian households don’t personal a automotive.

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