2023-09-24 09:16:47
In the absence of thrushes, we eat blackbirds, the proverb recalls. This week, distributors clearly rejected the government: selling their fuel at a loss for six months in their service station networks is out of the question. Bad news for motorists’ wallets, while the SP95-E10 was priced last week at 1.94 euros on average while diesel took five cents, going from 1.88 euros to 1.93 euros.
As a consolation prize, a handful of major retail players are offering their customers operations at cost price, scattered here and there in the coming weeks. Gain to hope for? Around 1.50 euros for a 50 liter tank, the margins in supermarkets are often low – around three cents on average per liter – fuel being a loss leader.
The Intermarché brand, owned by the Les Mousquetaires group, announced on September 12 the launch of an operation of this type once a month, in some of its service stations and until the end of the year. year: September 29 and 30; October 27 and 28; November 24 and 25; and December 15 and 16. Just like the Casino group which does it every weekend, but only until October 22 for the moment. “They will take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in all of our brand’s hypermarkets with a service station, outside Corsica,” specifies management. Other operations could subsequently be scheduled but the terms have not yet been decided. »
Nothing from Carrefour or Auchan
Système U also came out of the woods this week through the voice of its boss, Dominique Schelcher, announcing a first weekend on the same principle, on October 7 and 8. “I heard the call from Élisabeth Borne and the government to find solutions to the surge in fuel prices,” he explained last Wednesday on X (formerly Twitter). As a distributor, our mobilization remains intact. » A spokesperson for the cooperative provides some details: “Others will certainly be planned after this trial run, given the demand, we will not be satisfied with a single shot. »
TotalEnergies, the leading fuel distributor in France, will maintain a maximum ceiling of 1.99 euros per liter of gasoline or diesel in the 3,400 stations in its network, including in 2024, even if the prices of crude oil were still soaring (they are currently around 95 dollars per barrel).
For its part, E.Leclerc, which implemented cost-price operations this summer during weekends until the end of August, has decided to return to a classic commercial policy, without promotions of any kind. When contacted, the brand did not respond to our requests regarding a possible extension. Same silence at Auchan which did not respond to our calls. As for Carrefour, management explains that “the group has not planned any particular operation”.
Nothing very effective therefore, in the face of the surge which is currently igniting prices at the pump. Especially since the government does not intend to bring up to date last year’s boost which cost it 8 billion euros. At least for now.
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