"My commission has been cut by three": the great concern of "relay point" businesses regarding the deployment of lockers

Are small businesses at risk of disappearing in favor of huge lockers installed in supermarket parking lots? In several French cities, concern is growing as several large small parcel delivery groups recently announced their desire to deploy as many of these automated lockers as possible, some of which are permanently accessible. "Since the installation of two lockers in my city, my commission has been cut by three," bitterly laments the manager of a bar-tabac located in a small town in Maine-et-Loire, which works with both Mondial Relay and Colis Privé. Today, she laments that only the largest parcels are delivered to her, "between 26 and 30 per day" compared to "around a hundred before. " This has reduced her income from 1,500 euros per month at Christmas, at the height of business, to just 500 euros today.

And if the shopkeeper denounces a certain form of competition caused by the arrival of these new lockers...