Dark stores are not welcome in Lyon. During the city council on Thursday, this issue came into the debate and the EELV town hall wished to affirm its determination to slow down the establishment of these new supermarkets without customers, designed for online sale. The idea of a “warehouse city” where “we feed ourselves with clicks”, at the expense of local shops and “living together” has been singled out.
“We don’t want a society where everything is dark, where everything is fast. We do not want a warehouse city, without windows where everyone stays at home, without conviviality, without any pretext to meet the other ”, declared in session Camille Augey, the deputy to the ecological mayor Grégory Doucet in charge of the employment and sustainable economy.
“An increasingly dehumanized job”
“Behind this world of immediacy where you do your shopping behind your screen, rejoicing in this facility that is thus offered to us, hides ever more dehumanized work, ever higher speeds, ever more present technologies. “, Added the elected, denouncing” always more risks, always more stress, always more professional wear and tear “for the employees of these new structures resulting from the” quick commerce “.
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“It is a subject that is close to our hearts,” added Camille Augey, who answered Pascal Blache, mayor various right of the 6th arrondissement of Lyon. He was worried about the scheduled opening of a “dark store” in his area. “The city studies very strictly the various files which are deposited with regard to the rules of town planning and our competences in matters of administrative police”, specified Camille Augey, by bringing him “his support”.
“Do we really need shampoo in under 10 minutes?” “
The elected EELV assured her in the sense that her services would refuse the establishment of this decried “dark store”, “the categorization as a warehouse of this activity is not compatible” with the local urban plan in the district concerned. . “Do we really need a package of pasta or shampoo in less than 10 minutes without leaving our house?” It is not this city that we are calling for, ”continued Camille Augey.
She defends the idea of a city “where we forge links with its traders, where we greet each other, where we ask for advice” and “where the streets are lively”. “So long live local commerce, long live human contact”, she concluded.