Eager to bet on digital sales, Auchan Retail France will reduce its workforce.
The management of the distributor announced on Wednesday a plan which provides for the elimination of 1,475 jobs, to "adapt" "its organization to the new expectations of consumers and citizens".
"This project would lead to the net elimination of 1,088 currently occupied jobs (1,475 positions would be eliminated, including 10 vacant, and 377 positions would be created)", she wrote in a press release, while an extraordinary social and economic committee was held in Hem near Lille since Tuesday.
To “move on to the second phase of its transformation plan”, the group relies “on adapting the organization of hypermarkets, the merchandise chain and after-sales service” and on “digital proximity, a which could allow the creation of around 600 jobs.
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Hosts and cashiers not concerned
The company wants to “double food sales in digital commerce” by 2022 and intends to “establish unified management of the merchandise chain, from supplier to customer”, “accelerate the digitization of the Auchan offer and customer shopping routes ”and“ pooling support activities in hypermarkets ”.
“The job of host and cashier is not affected by job cuts,” she emphasizes.
The company also wants to close the meat cutting workshop in Lieusaint (Seine-et-Marne), which employs 57 people.
"The digitization of after-sales service would make it possible to strengthen the customer's autonomy in taking charge and respond to the decline in the consumer electronics market which has led to a 45% decline in after-sales service in 10 years. ", Advances Auchan Retail France, which" would result in the closure of 9 of the 11 repair centers (those in Aubagne and Trappes would be retained) and the elimination of after-sales services in hypermarkets ".