Without bread or newspaper next to Amazon

Without bread or newspaper next to Amazon



Three minutes by car and twenty minutes on foot from the house of Jose Arbesu they are building the large ship of the American multinational amazon in the Bobes industrial estate, in Asturias. But in the place chosen by the company to set up one of its largest logistics centers in the country due to its strategic location and its good communications, it so happens that Neither the daily bread nor the newspaper arrives well.

In reality, everything was due to the closure of the Siero y Noreña bakery, based in El Berrón, of which they were “always” clients. “When we had the service, other commercials passed by offering us their products. But now the route has been left empty and no one passes through here ", says Arbesu, on the porch of his house. The situation has to do with the end of the activity of the business that served the bread and that this has meant that other things such as the press also stop arriving. But it is still paradoxical that to the point from which in the near future all kinds of goods will leave through Amazon logistics, the most basic products cannot reach a home.

He doesn't know what he misses more, whether to read 'La Nueva España', a medium that belongs to the same editorial group as this newspaper, every morning in the garden, leaning on a table and in his wheelchair, or eating the tender curruscos of the bread: “The two things make me angry. He went through what happened.”

From a butcher family, a business that his son also inherited, he is 74 years old and has lived in Bobes all his life. She was even born in a house a few meters from the one that is currently hers. And, as in many other towns, "without warning or anything", one day the van did not pass. He called to ask what was going on, but the line was jammed and no one answered. Others did get a response: One of the most traditional businesses in the region was closed, the bakery that served the entire area.

Later, reading the newspaper – because someone in his family approached him – he found out what had happened. Although the baker who until then had been the one he trusted had a “very good” gesture: “I always paid him fifteen days in advance. The last time I went to pay him, the guy told me that he wasn't going to charge me until the fortnight was up. And when they finished, he didn't come anymore. But neither did anyone else come by to offer him the service. "I hope it went well for you," he wishes.

José Arbesú, in the garden area of ​​his house in Bobes. RIG


Closure of the supplier

The closure of the Siero y Noreña bakery was a shock for the entire municipality. The company was founded in 1947 and, due to its tradition, had a wide portfolio of clients, especially from rural parishes. They resisted several crises, but the pandemic put them in check completely. They had already been dragging economic problems for a long time and the last months, since September, the workers were without pay.

There were in some places, like in Molleo, where the service was restored thanks to other companies. However, in Bobes they cannot say the same. And due to a communications problem "it can't be". “It's that I don't adapt to reading it on the internet (the newspaper), I don't understand it well. I find out about the news on television, but already at noon”, he says. And the day that the lack of service bothers him the most is Monday: "Because he can't follow the League well," jokes his daughter Eva.

To Arbesu he likes to read the news in his area, then it doesn't do him any good that his daughter brings him the Gijón edition of 'La Nueva España'. He wants the edition of Centro, the one from his region of Siero. Because it also informs about how the development of the Amazon project in Bobes is going.

The arrival of the multinational seems to him that it will only bring good things. "Since they arrived, we have more traffic here," he confesses. However, he hopes that the installation will only bring "improvement". “It will employ two thousand people, and surely 30 or 40 percent will be from Siero”he reflects with a tone of certain satisfaction.

In addition, the high influx of traffic will be resolved as soon as the section of the AS-17 between San Miguel and Bobes is unfolded, for which the Principality has already allocated 23.4 million euros. “We are going to be much better”, Arbesu points out. He is delighted: “We have a mayor who is a phenomenon. I am not a politician, I never went to vote, but when one does it well, he does it well”, concludes Arbesu. His problem is not that, but another: that the bread and the press no longer arrive, even though he has Amazon next door.



Source link