Toulouse: Leclerc store launches second-hand sale at the risk of penalizing charities

This is a first in the supermarket. A Leclerc store in Roques-sur-Garonne has just launched itself into the second-hand market.
In this hypermarket near Toulouse, one can "sell" and buy second-hand goods.

At Leclerc, the opportunity to attract customers

A radius of 400 square meters now offers customers to buy a game, a plancha, a pressure cooker, a fridge or a computer … at a lower price . Everything is found except clothes and no food either.

The items for sale were deposited by customers. They are immediately estimated and "bought" or rather "exchanged" in purchase vouchers to use … at Leclerc obviously or in the shopping mall.

At Emmaus, the opportunity to fight against precariousness

Leclerc has sniffed the bargain of the second-hand market but this new commercial activity could well harm charities that also work on this sector.

At Emmaus Toulouse, for example, one can buy second-hand objects but the money thus earned makes it possible to create projects in which humans find their place.
In the community of Emmaus Toulouse, 130 people in precarious situation can work and live with dignity.

See the report of Christine Ravier and Nathalie Fournis