Takeovers, alliances… the behemoths of mass distribution at the dawn of a new era?

It’s a “big bang” that could occur at any time in the small world of mass distribution. But when exactly? Only one dares to make a prediction, it is the businessman Moez-Alexandre Zouari (owner of Picard, Maxi bazar, Stokomani, etc.): “I am convinced that things will change in the next twelve months”, announced -he, last month in Les Échos. “That” is the “consolidation”, as the experts say, of mass distribution. It would aim to reshuffle the cards between the various players in the sector (from Leclerc to Cora via Carrefour, there are nine of them today), in order to form strategic alliances.