“Common sense, logic, a question also of savings, which is not negligible. On the Thionville pedestrian plateau, the traders questioned about the energy sobriety plan announced by President Macron on July 14 are good students.
About the window lights, most of them are equipped with an automatic switch that turns off the spotlights, often LEDs, without moving an eyelid. “During the day, it is even possible to vary the intensity, which I do regularly”, testifies the owner of a shop rue du Luxembourg.
Then concerning the question of heating and air conditioning, those to whom we handed the microphone confirm that in winter as in summer, they have already gotten into the habit of closing the doors of their premises.
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“An open door, commercially speaking, is better! »
Lately, Thionville has been very hot, and the air conditioners have been running at full speed. And it is clear that some doors had remained open. But they assure him, on these occasions, the system blowing cold was then paused. “An open door, commercially speaking, is better! “, they agree to say.
In this store, on the other hand, under the seal of confidence, this employee confides that her regional delegate – DR in the jargon – “imposes” on her to leave the entrance open as often as possible. It doesn’t matter if the temperatures flirt with the top or the bottom of the thermometer.
Others don’t seem to care about their energy consumption, always with the idea that the customer tends to enter sales outlets more easily.
Large retailers and specialist retailer chains have recently committed to reducing their energy consumption from 15 October.
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