2023-05-06 18:07:00
In recent days, a video showing hundreds of kilos of food whose expiry date has not passed piled up in garbage cans following a strike in a Carrefour warehouse in Sarthe has aroused the indignation of many Internet users. The sign tried to put an end to the controversy.
Sachet salads, pizzas, yoghurt… thousands of foodstuffs are piled up in garbage cans. Shared thousands of times on social networks, the video is controversial.
Especially since among the products thrown away, some have not reached the expiry date.
The scene takes place at the Carrefour Allonnes warehouse, a logistics center of the brand whose operation is currently disrupted due to a strike. According BFM TV, the video would have been shot by an employee wishing to remain anonymous.
Waste at “an industrial level”
He denounces a waste “at an industrial level”. “Rather than giving products with short dates to employees, management has chosen to throw everything away,” we hear indignantly.
Faced with the controversy aroused, Carrefour reacted this Thursday, May 4. “Following the blocking of the site by demonstrations and a cold chain management error, we regret having to eliminate products that have become unfit for consumption and food donation”, justified the large brand. distribution.
Hello, following the blocking of the site by demonstrations and a cold chain management error, we were sorry to have to eliminate products that had become unfit for consumption and food donation. The Crossroads team.
— Service Client Carrefour (@CarrefourSAV) May 4, 2023
Problem according to FO, the argument of the cold chain “does not hold for stocks of shallots, potatoes”. Nor “for the salad bags which on May 3 – if there had been a cold break since April 28 – would be of another color and in the process of visible putrefaction”.
The union has announced that it wants to conduct its own investigation.
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