Employees fear the impact on their jobs as Auchan plans to replace 300 franchise supermarkets with Intermarché or Netto brands. Changes that could also affect logistics and purchasing centers.
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The employees are “worried about their future jobs and how their lives will be structured in a brand different from ours”Tuesday in franceinfo Djamal Otmani, delegate of the CFTC central union in Auchan, after the announcement of Auchan, in trouble, to switch to franchising, under the banners of Intermarché and Netto, in about 300 of its supermarkets. The brand will retain its hypermarket in its name.
“We also have concerns about how hypermarkets will operate separately from supermarkets, and we are also concerned about other entities such as logistics or purchasing centers, which will of course also be impacted”added the union representative.
In great difficulty, distributor Auchan announced on Tuesday 25 November that it wanted to operate around 300 French supermarkets (excluding Corsica) as franchises under the Intermarché and Netto banners. However, the brand will continue to operate in its 117 hypermarkets. Project, “subject to prior authorization from the competent competition authority”Can “takes effect at the end of 2026“, explained Auchan.
