Michel-Edouard Leclerc, president of the strategic committee of distribution leader E.Leclerc and guest on Saturday on the show C l'hebdo on France 5. “I don’t know what he wants to do,” he continued, deploring not knowing the minister’s ‘plan’ and not being involved in its development.

The players in mass distribution are more generally in the crosshairs of the government which is trying to stem inflation.