Belonging to Carrefour, the Atacadão supermarket faced obstacles to opening a store in France. In the city of Sevran, in the metropolitan region of Paris, the French gathered against the opening of trade and the mobilization took on greater proportions. The mayor of the city, Stéphane Blanchet, was also against it. Find out why as you read.
Atacadão suffers boycott in France
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Last Thursday, the 15th, the newspaper 'Le Parisien' reported that the opening of the supermarket was scheduled for the first three months of this year. The date was not disclosed, but everything was indicating the opening of the supermarket in the next few days.
The mayor defended the cause saying that the opening of Atacadão would harm the local population.
“The inhabitants of Sevran deserve better than this low-cost project, which threatens employment, favors motorized circulation, harms the commercial offer and calls into question the sustainable, ecological and solidary city project for which we have been working vigorously for several years,” they wrote in a statement. set.
Among residents, around 50,000 people signed the city's undersigned to prevent the opening of the Brazilian supermarket.
Deputy Clémentine Autain spoke at the twitter saying that the people of Sevran had achieved the “victory”, stating that there would be “problems for the local economy” if there was an inauguration.
Carrefour says it will not give up
Even with an intense demonstration against it, the Carrefour Group, owner of Atacadão, says it is analyzing and studying new proposals to inaugurate the first Atacadão in France.
In agreement with the city of the metropolitan region of Paris, after pleading, they stated that there would be no real conditions to open the store in the trade in the city of Sevran.
Carrefour is an international brand, born in France. Atacadão belongs to the Brazilian trade and is currently among the largest wholesale supermarkets in the country.
As it belongs to a French group, it is certainly part of the original wishes to return to Carrefour's host country taking the Brazilian Atacadão. For now, plans have been postponed with no deadline for return.
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