After the announcement made by Michel-Edouard Leclerc, cereal, millers and bakers, as well as FNSEA, the first agricultural union, have denounced in a common statement “voluntarily value destructive prices”.
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Anger does not weaken in farmers and bakers. The entire Wheat industry was indignant Wednesday, January 12 of the Leclerc group of a bread rod at 29 euro cents. Michel-Edouard Leclerc, boss of the group, announced Tuesday that he blocked the price of the baguette of bread in his shops at this price – even up to 23 cents – for at least four months, in the name of the defense of power purchase of the French in an inflationary context.
An act considered as a declaration of war by the whole wheat sector. In the aftermath of this ad, cereal, millers and bakers, as well as the FNSEA, the first agricultural union, denounced in a common statement “voluntarily destructive value”. They are indignant for a “demagogic” announcement while “cereal courses and consequently flour experience high prices, that production costs (wages, etc.) are progressing sharply and the average price of the price of the price. Baguette in France, in 2021 according to INSEE, is 0.90 euro “.
” demagogy “and” populism “
This announcement, which occurs at the moment when the sectors and the government “work to compensate precisely the farmers” and where “the know-how and the quality of the French wand are in the process of being recognized by UNESCO” , caused an outcry.
“Michel-Edouard Leclerc makes demagogy and populism, as it is used to it. He sells at a loss, crushes the work of his own employees, despises the bakers who get up at 3 o’clock or 4 hours from the Morning Every night to make good bread and gives a very bad value of value, “said Thursday 13 January Christiane Lambert, President of the FNSEA, at the microphone of BFM-TV.
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“It is also revealed, because when he sells his baguette to 60 or 70 cents, it makes a considerable margin. It will have to make accounts. On which products will it compensate for? milk, The eggs, the stationery? Who will trink when he has made his show? And where does the flour come from? How can he do this price? “, questioned the leader of the majority union of farmers.
“preserve job and quality”
“We seek to preserve employment and quality, this has a cost: it is necessary to properly remember the actors, those who plant, who reap, which assemble the grains and make the flour, and those who make bread. What Leclerc does is shameful, “said Wednesday at the France-Press Jean-François Loiseau, president of the National Association of French Groussor.
While wheat prices increased by about 30% in one year, Mr. Loiseau also wonders “where the Leclerc group buys its flour” and “on which products it will compensate”. In addition, Leclerc “breaks prices” in the particularly tense context of annual negotiations between producers and distributors, highlight the actors of the sector.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc has not hidden: “Flour suppliers have invoked the rise in wheat prices to seek considerable increases,” he said Tuesday on BFM-TV, defending his choice on a “flagship product”, “Inflation marker”, as it had done for the fuel a few months ago.