Faced with the difficulties of Restos du Coeur, Intermarché and Netto will organize collection operations

2023-09-03 18:15:00

By Emma Confrere

Posted 1 hour ago, Updated 29 minutes ago

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Thanks to its production plants, the Les Mousquetaires group will also “support the association with significant donations”, he announced this Sunday.

«If nothing is done, we could have to close within three years“, alerted this Sunday the Restos du Coeur. In financial difficulty, the association resigned itself this winter to reducing the number of beneficiaries of their food aid. With inflation, the Restos du Coeur are once again forced to “say no to 150,000 people that we could have accommodated before inflation», regrets Patrice Douret.

In response, the Les Mousquetaires group, in consultation with the association, “will set up, before the end of the year, collection operations specifically dedicated to Restos du Coeur via its Intermarché and Netto brands“. In all, 2,100 stores will be affected in France.

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Although the group also has its own agri-food factories, “the Mousquetaires business leaders have also decided to support the association with significant donations from their 56 production units“, such as food or baby diapers produced in Brittany.

«We cannot remain indifferent to the difficulties that our fellow citizens encounter in eating well, or even just eating“Said Thierry Cotillard, president of the Groupement les Mousquetaires, in a press release. Alexandre Bompard, CEO of the Carrefour group also reacted this Sunday evening on the BFMTV set: “The difficulties of the Restos du Coeur are the expression of the difficulties of the French“. Although he has not announced any measures for the time being, Alexandre Bompard has guaranteed that the group “will be there, as we always have been». «We will look at what we can do financially.“, he completed.