The management of Cap Costières announces a period of work for the takeover of Casino by Auchan

Cap Costières annonce l’ouverture de ses commerces durant les travaux de l’hypermarché qui passera sous enseigne Auchan fin mai. Archive Midi Libre

L’enseigne Casino se retire de la grande surface de Cap Costières pour laisser la place à Auchan fin mai. La CGT s’inquiète des futures conditions de travail.

The management of the Cap Costières shopping center officially communicated this Friday April 26 on the takeover of the Casino hypermarket by Auchan as part of a national plan. "Auchan confirms the attractiveness of our Nîmes shopping gallery. The brand, a family and global group, is anchored in the daily life of its territories. With this opening, we welcome a hypermarket that gives meaning to the trade of commerce and symbolizes a vision of commerce, centered on humans and their environment."

The management of Cap Costières announces a period of work in the supermarket and the opening of all the stores in the shopping center during this episode. "While the large food store will be getting a makeover, people in Nîmes will be able to take advantage of special offers in the gallery's boutiques. We will distribute a digital checkbook of promotions to support our merchants!".

Historical sign

This is therefore a change of era for Cap Costières since Casino was the historic brand. "Nîmes, just like Carcassonne, is one of those stores which will go under the Auchan brand from the end of May", announces the CGT delegate of the group Casino Michel Rieux.

For the Nîmes store, a priori, the number of employees should be maintained with the arrival of Auchan, "Casino has reduced its workforce in supermarkets from 200 people to 90 so Auchan can hardly reduce the number of employees", confides Michel Rieux.

What worries the CGT representative are the differences in work organization between the two groups: "Our fight is to maintain social benefits for at least fifteen months. It’s not for nothing that Casino is a group that has existed for 125 years! Our concern is the deterioration of working conditions with, for example, more hours worked. Questions that employees of the Nîmes store.