change buying habits and competition Amazon is cornering small businesses Murcia and Cartagena streets. Traditional stores continue to blind Even in the most central parts of the big cities of the Region, while franchises occupy the places left vacant by the family businesses that have been operating for generations. Carmen Piñero, president of the Coremur regional trade association and Antonio Sanchez ArenasThe Cartagena Open Mall president advocates levying taxes on Amazon so local businesses don’t have to compete with the delivery giant at a disadvantage.
“The internet does a lot of harm. Also Chinese companies. Everyone is used to buying online and this is influence the workforce, reassured Tere Orenes on Tuesday when he bought the shoes from the store he has run for 18 years on Jabonerías de Murcia street. Yesterday his shoe store became the last of the businesses to close their doors on this central artery.
Franchises occupy vacant buildings in the historic center of major cities.
“Small businesses are dying. going. Nobody respects him, does not spoil him, he is destined to fail,” and warned that he had to pack the goods without selling the same day.
On his behalf, the President core With the disappearance of traditional commerce, “our culture is disappearing, the opportunity to see what you’ve bought and get your hands on it without waiting a few days for the package to reach your home,” he warns.
The urban landscape is changing as shop windows disappear and streets become atmosphereless.
Saddened by the closure of stores the “habit of walking and going out and window shopping” disappears.
carmen pinero With the disappearance of small shops, he says, “quality employment is also disappearing. Many workers have stable jobs with indefinite contracts.”
“Every euro spent on local businesses multiply and produce wealth who stays in the city. People do not know what they are losing, and the changes this creates in the life of a city should be told to young people who are used to shopping online.
“With the disappearance of traditional trade in cities, our culture is also disappearing”
He says he’s an expert in the shop windows he works in”compare commerce to the appearance of a city. For this reason, the economy suffers when local businesses get sick, just as the body of a person with a skin health problem gets sick.”
The representative of the regional employers’ association advocates taxation. major distribution platforms”using this money to help traders.
He is also the president of the Cartagena Open Mall “a tax on Amazon” to avoid competition from large companies against physical stores. “If not, there’s no way to compete,” he says.
“You only go out for leisure, but there is less work and deserted streets”
Antonio Sánchez Arenas refers to studies that speak of “for every job created by companies like Amazon destroys three more”.
Cartagena businessman, “hepandemic and the bill of war we all have to pay for it” and assumes things will only get worse after the summer.
“The beginning of the year was poor, but now joy, the proximity of the holidays and the arrival of the holiday Gezi. There is more atmosphere but the last quarter and new year will be tough. We don’t know what’s going to happen to traditional trade,” he predicts.
Antonio Sanchez Arenas change in consumption habits it has replaced commerce and gives all heroism to “leisure”. People go out just to spend their free time.
However, he points out that: closed building and ground floor evacuatedthere are fewer jobs and the streets are deserted, which shifts demand to bar areas.
“The convenience of having your orders delivered to your home comes with a lot of damage. Our guns, personal customer service and specialization, but without help with these weapons you can’t fight,” he concludes.