“Transition to rental and franchise management may continue in 2026”welcomed by the Carrefour group in a press release, after delivering the ruling against it to the CFDT service federation, Friday 21 November. The Evry Judicial Court instead dissolved the union that sued the distributor to try to end this practice, which has grown since the arrival of Alexandre Bompard as head of the group in 2017.
Listen too At Carrefour, a social plan in disguise?
The CEO again defended his strategy on March 31 before a Senate committee: instead of closing, it would be better to get the stores out. “who lost money” from within the group,” meaning, asking a businessman to take responsibility for a shop” he explained. “These stores have been saved, Carrefour has not closed any supermarkets in France” He then welcomed it by stating that 15 hypermarkets and 25 supermarkets per year were affected.
In practice, the operation of the store is outsourced and most of the costs must then be borne by the tenant-manager and no longer by Carrefour, which in return receives royalties for the use of its brand. Thus, of the 170,000 people working under the Carrefour brand, only half are still integrated. Other companies went from multinationals with profitable collective agreements to local companies whose social benefits were renegotiated after fifteen months.
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