2023-05-06 12:21:31
After the publication of a video showing twelve dumpsters filled with food to be thrown away, the group justified this action by breaking the cold chain which would have “made the products unsuitable for consumption as well as food donation”.
The video has been doing a lot of social media over the past few days. We see the hand of a man who opens twelve large bins filled with food products such as pizzas, yogurts, brioches, carrots, fresh cream or salad. The man filming points out that the video is taken at the Carrefour Allonnes warehouse, a logistics center located in Sarthe, near Le Mans.
He denounces a waste of food “at an industrial level”: “Following the strike movement, rather than giving products with short dates to the employees, the management chose to throw everything away.”
In particular, he seized a bag of lettuce whose expiry date was May 6, while the video was taken on Wednesday May 3.
According to the secretary of Force Ouvrière in Sarthe, Loïc Boyard, this video was taken by an employee of Carrefour Supply Chain who, according to TF1, wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals. The strike movement mentioned was against the pension reform and dates back to last week.
It disrupted the supply by the logistics warehouse of 500 Carrefour stores within a radius of 200 km, as explained by the union representative to West France: “We blocked from Wednesday April 26 at 10 p.m. until Friday April 28 at 12 p.m., knowing that they can no longer load after 12 p.m. As there are also no comings and goings during the weekend nor during public holidays. They only resumed on Tuesday, May 2. That day, the fresh shelves were empty in some Carrefour de Nantes.”
FO plans to investigate on its side
According to Loïc Boyard quoted by TF1, the twelve filled dumpsters represent “more than a ton of goods” wasted.
The Carrefour group was quick to react to the scale of online criticism. With the daily West Francethe company explains that “Carrefour employees had to face logistical difficulties in terms of deliveries and management of the cold chain” linked to the blocking of the site.
“In this context, a refrigerated truck was not set to the right temperature, which caused a break in the cold chain and made the products unsuitable for consumption as well as food donation.”
Carrefour specifies that the products in question “have joined a biomethane recovery sector”.
But FO does not drop the argument of the cold chain which “does not hold for stocks of shallots, potatoes”. “Nor for the salad bags which on May 3, if there had been a cold break since April 28, would be of another color and in the process of visible putrefaction”, he adds.
TF1 indicates that the union organization plans to “conduct its own investigation to verify the elements provided by the group”.
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