The Zara brand is packing up, a “new blow for the city center”

2024-03-21 16:06:18

The Zara store, located on Place du Peuple in Saint-Etienne, is considered “one of the last great locomotives of the city center”. However, she will pack up to settle in the Steel shopping center, located a few kilometers away. “A new hard blow,” said the opposition this Thursday.

“At first firmly denied by the municipality, this hypothesis which has become reality now seems to delight the municipal executive”, accuses the Saint-Etienne group tomorrow in a press release, criticizing a “lunar discrepancy with the general feeling of the population”.

“Siphoning off the city center”

“We had warned of the fact that this commercial juggernaut would inevitably siphon off the city center,” he is alarmed, recalling that “at the start” this should not generate “any competition” with the shops located in the heart of the city. Saint Etienne.

Other brands have already moved, such as H & M or Maisons du Monde.

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