The Casino group will cut more than 3,000 jobs as part of the social plan announced in April, several union sources told AFP on Friday, after a meeting of the central social and economic committee in Saint-Etienne, where the headquarters are located.
The management of the supermarket chain did not want to “confirm or deny” these figures. However, it specified that “not all the positions eliminated would result in dry layoffs”. It had previously given a broad range of 1,293 to 3,267 job cuts.
Casino, which still employed 200,000 people worldwide and 50,000 in France at the end of 2022, has seen its workforce shrink over the course of the disposals of recent months, to 28,212 pre-PSE and after the sale of almost all of its large-format stores to competitors. The distributor, which fell into the hands of Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky and his allies, billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière and the Attestor fund, at the end of March, also has almost no international presence.