The Géant Casino d'Angers is still being talked about. The 5,000 m2 hypermarket, which had sparked a lively controversy last summer when it decided to open Sunday afternoons with self-service checkouts, is open this May 1 from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., despite the confinement, thanks to security guards and automatic cash registers. An "irresponsible" attitude on the social and health level, denounces, headwinds, the CGT Commerce.
Last fall, Géant Casino La Roseraie's service provider, Sasu Event, had been banned by the courts from employing its employees to help store customers switch to automatic cash on Sundays after 1 p.m., the group being unable to do call only security guards.
An "irresponsible" attitude
“We want to denounce this new social regression of the rights of employees. Indeed, May 1st is the only paid and non-working day in France. It is the international day of the workers ”, recalled the CGT Commerce in a press release.
The union also denounces an "irresponsible" attitude of the Casino group, which, by choosing to open during periods of sanitary confinement, "endangers" the vigilantes of service providers present.
The direction of communication of Casino signs has for its part indicated that several of its stores have been open seven days a week for a year and a half and that 181 are open this May 1 in France. “Last year, we already had a part of our supermarkets […] on May 1st. What we want is to stick as closely as possible to consumers' expectations. It is an additional service, ”said the group, adding that it had“ done everything to implement the barrier gestures ”.