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products in a logic of circularity of products , these can have several lives. A thrift store at Auchan Again, if these specific offers allow, at the beginning, to achieve what we could qualify as good deals, they can also force us to question ourselves on our needs and our desires of purchases, to reflect on the factors which aroused them, and to their real needs, and short and long term impacts on our environment. Consequently, distributors are adapting to these new behaviors by putting more emphasis in their stores on the efforts made to limit waste, with stronger emphasis on anti-waste or zero-waste zones or their links with applications, such as Phenix or Too good to go, for the creation of anti-waste or zero-waste baskets.
  
The brands are also embarking, alone or with help, on opening "corners" dedicated to second-hand goods (for example, by joining the second-hand clothes dealer Patatam for Auchan ) or are opening up to rentals (for example, with Seb for Casino in kitchen appliances), thus learning new trades, so that these opportunities  canada phone number list do not escape them by remaining, solely, in a peer-to-peer logic. These different actions, even if they involve costs and the acquisition of new skills, also allow distributors to take care of their images of responsible brands , which invest in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) .



It remains to be seen whether this logic of consuming better, in the sense of consuming less , is only linked to the current period or whether it is set to continue. To answer this question, an interesting parallel can be drawn with the pandemic and periods of confinement. Almost three years ago, many reflections had emerged, linked to these events that impacted us, on the need to consume differently, to consume better ( in short circuits, local products, seasonal, organic, etc.) , and thus to evolve in “the right direction”. Unfortunately, some of the practices adopted during these periods of confinement, long before the current inflation, are not transformed into habits . Will it be the same in the behaviors adopted today by distributors and consumers?In recent months, a new form of commerce has developed in Paris and in most major French cities: “quick commerce”.