Despite the court decision, Casino does not intend to give way. While the High Court of Angers on Thursday banned the group to open its hypermarket in Angers on Sunday afternoon, and therefore employing female hosts to welcome customers, Casino intends to remain open with automated boxes. A plan that he plans to expand to other stores across the country.
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Geant Casino d'Angers was the first hypermarket to open in automatic mode, and this Sunday will be the ninth consecutive in which the store will welcome customers. Habits are taken: after a chaotic start due to the dispute in front of the store the first two weekends, the management announces an average of 1.000 cash passes each Sunday afternoon.
Due to the judgment of the Tribunal de Grande Instance, there will be more facilitators, hitherto employed with a provider, to greet and inform customers. The followers of the races on Sunday afternoon will therefore have to fend for themselves to pay for their purchases, with the automatic crates, and only the guards will remain.
Unions hostile to opening on Sunday
No presenter will be present in the hypers Gant Casino Gap and Chaumont who took over that of Angers last weekend. And the group announces that it will accelerate its plan by the end of the year. The next will be the hyper Salon de Provence, from the last Sunday of October, and that of Fontaine-lès-Dijon, from mid-November. The unions are announcing their preparations for Limoges and Puy-en-Velay, which the management of Casino does not confirm for now.
The group claims this new form of unmanned distribution. It is a service in "degraded mode", he admits, since there is no advice to customers, so it is not intended to replace the normal mode with sellers and cash staff. But it can be justified at certain times of the week, such as Sunday afternoons. The fact remains that the unions are fiercely hostile, seeing in this policy a race to market shares which, they say, will be socially devastating.