A video widely relayed on social networks shows pallets of mustard in a warehouse.
The man filming assures that he usually delivers to Carrefour stores but that this time he has received "order" to store these products.
Carrefour and the company that manufactures this mustard have denounced a "fake news", with our colleagues from France Info.
‼️ This mustard story is coming to my nose #Mustard #government
🇨🇵 Carrefour - shortage of mustard - we can't deliver them because we have orders to store them!
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“Apparently there is a shortage of mustard in stores.
Well listen, I don't understand because we have plenty of it, it's stored to death.
We can't deliver them because we have orders to store them, so we would still have to be explained to us, ”comments the author of the video on the images of mustard pallets located in a warehouse.
But Carrefour conducted an "internal investigation" which allows it today to denounce "a misleading arrangement aimed at harming" the image of the company.
Hello, since the global shortage of mustard, we have organized ourselves with our European partners to continue to offer it to our Customers in our stores in France.
– Carrefour Customer Service (@CarrefourSAV) July 10, 2022
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Four weeks of orders
A version confirmed by the company Reine de Dijon, which produces these jars of mustard.
The company recognized its pallets on the video.
A surfer even identified one of the products: Rustica brand mustard.
However, this product is marketed by Leclerc and not Carrefour.
Carrefour sells the Rustica (Leclerc) brand now?
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According to Reine de Dijon, these pallets were therefore sold to the Leclerc group and there was no retention of products to cause a shortage.
If there were so many pallets on the video, it is because four weeks of orders were grouped into a single delivery.
In total, 6 to 7 trucks, each carrying around 30 pallets, had to pick up these products, which would explain the presence of so much mustard in this warehouse.
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