2023-09-29 18:49:18
On BFMTV, the distributor’s boss confirms that food manufacturers continue to demand price increases and warns that the reduction for the consumer is not for tomorrow.
For the government, things are clear. The prices of many raw materials have fallen in recent weeks, this must be seen in the prices paid by consumers on the shelves.
Hence the advancement of the conclusions of the trade negotiations to January 15 instead of the end of March.
But for Michel-Edouard Leclerc, the hope of a drop in prices from January is a mirage.
“It’s going to be very difficult, I’m not announcing any reductions. No supplier is offering us any reductions” he explains on BFMTV this Friday, confirming the words of Laurent Schelcher, boss of Système U.
“We will try not to be fooled”
“The first prices that arrive to us for next year as part of the future reopening of renegotiations are rather on the rise and increases of almost 10%,” lamented the boss of the brand.
But Michel-Edouard Leclerc intends to fight during these negotiations: “we are going to try not to be fooled like last year. We are not going to simply listen: ‘it’s war in Ukraine, there is no no more sunflowers etc’. Our buyers have put the turbo on and we are going to go to Castagne” he says.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc also believes that large manufacturers “can spread the additional costs” that they incur “over the year” in order to accelerate the fall in prices.
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