The big brands – Carrefour, Franprix, Monop ‘(Monoprix), and Casino – did not lose their sense of trade during this epidemic period. For several days, Carrefour and Casino have been delivering races via Uber Eats, while Franprix and the Monop ‘stores have also teamed up with Deliveroo to support the French in fresh and essential products.
“The special barbecue baskets work very well“, Maintains the communications director of Monoprix, at Figaro. Indeed, 63% of French people are confined to a house. Since April 6, Monoprix (Goupe Casino) has offered via 38 Monop ‘shops – across 15 cities in France (Nice, Cannes, Reims, Toulouse …) 80 selected items. 50 references are sold individually and 30 in the form of prepared baskets: brunch, aperitif, fruit and vegetables … sold between 13 and 40 euros.
The prices are “slightly“Increased to take into account the delivery costs collected by the Deliveroo platform and guaranteed orders”in less than 30 minutes and 7 days a week», According to normal opening hours. This timely partnership was already in preparation: “We have accelerated collaboration”, confirms the brand.
On the Carrefour side, around fifteen convenience stores have been available on the Uber Eats app since April 6 as well. The service is limited for the moment to Paris and its small crown (three stores in Courbevoie, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Puteaux). The products are restricted to daily food shopping, as well as hygiene and maintenance. For people who do not have the application, it is also possible to order by phone, using a dedicated number. The two allies aim to extend this system to the rest of France “within the next few weeks»And to perpetuate the post-containment service.
Containment Survival Kit
The Géant Casino and Casino Supermarkets banners were the first to offer this delivery service via Uber Eats. Since April 3, they have been operational in 17 major French cities (Angers, Paris, Dijon, Grenoble, Marseille, Nîmes …) and offer two types of baskets:multivitamins“, Composed of French fruits and vegetables, at 25 euros, and a basket”the indispensable», Consisting of everyday groceries as well as toilet paper. A kind of containment survival kit.
Franprix (Casino group) already collaborated with Deliveroo before the era of containment and adapted to containment by also offering thematic baskets. The products sold individually are limited to three per order for one-liter bottles, and to five units for other products (rice, pasta …). The group has added to the hundred references already available, frozen products, cleaning products and even hygiene products for babies.
The uberization of the delivery profession by the two giants Deliveroo and Uber Eats are the subject of sharp criticism and procedures in many countries where they are established. Working conditions, all the more castigated at the moment due to exposure to the virus, are closely scrutinized by unions and health measures, expected at the turn. These partnerships come at a time when several groups of deliverers have requested a total halt to deliveries via platforms, due to health risks, for both deliverers and the population.
“We are at “war” and people have Kinder Bueno deliveredRebelled on April 11 on Twitter Jérôme Pimot, ex-deliveryman, co-founder and spokesperson for the main Parisian delivery group CLAP. Since the first day of the administrative closure of non-essential businesses, he has campaigned fiercely for the temporary suspension of platforms.
“People already have anything like ice cream and cakes delivered to them, with supermarkets it only multiplies this nonsense, it’s going to be open bar“, He explains to Figaro. Certainly, the deliverers are not going to work with a knife in the throat – they are entitled to the allowances provided for the self-employed – but “we see it on social networks and in the field, a good part of those who are still working do it in disregard of health rules», Jérôme Pimot supports. “The deliverers spend their day touching intercoms, doors, bags … we see them taking their orders with gloves that they keep after. This can only multiply the risk of infection!“
The two giants of FoodTech claim to have implemented strict sanitary procedures in accordance with the guide of good practices published by the government in order to ensure contactless deliveries, on the landing or at the foot of a building.
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