A company profiting from war?!
*insert surprised pikachu*
Sadly article forgot to mention that leroy kicking it’s employees in ukraine cause they “dared” to criticise company public stance on invasion
Meanwhile in poland due to criticism and some organisations calling for boycott leroy russian and belorussian goods, leroy reacted at this criticism accordingly, and started replacing labels on those products so they appeared to be “made in poland”
Disgusting company lead by disgusting people
russian business is with russians, wow
Looks like reused packaging to me.
I have read somewhere that Auchan has always been like that. Money don’t stink, especially for Mulliez family.
Likely Russian billionaires own significant shares of the business, so that’d make sense. Going against shareholders is something few Western countries will do.
Plus, they helped the Russian authorities collect data for the military registration and enlistment office about their employees.
Big corporations trying to make profit regardless of consequences. This really news to anybody? Instead of trying to ban memes, or trying to get people to eat insects, this is something the EU could actually look into. Making sure that corporations aren’t allowed to grow so big that they can simply get away with things such as this, by breaking large corporations into smaller entities.
After BNP Paribas with Sudan and Lafarge with ISIS, now we have Auchan with Russia. I hope one day our government watches carefully what our companies do in the world, and prevent them helping rogue states and territories
Boycott rAussan
Honestly, the stuff in the article sounds so small-scale, I have no problem believing this is all on war-friendly local Russian middle management, not some coordinated effort by the French headquarters. Sending the contents of donation boxes to soldiers instead of civilians? Not exactly something that generates a lot of money for Auchan.
Same with providing names of employees for the draft – highly doubt this was an order from the top, but more the work of local HR guys preferring to not deny a request by the Russian state.
They have over 400 stores in Russia, what should they do, donate it all to Putin? Burn them? Delete the brand entirely? It would not stop deliveries to Russian troops.
Of course it’s all about taking a political stand, but you’re asking them (the family that runs this business) to basically drop everything they’ve built their entire life without certainty it would do anything good for Ukraine. Sounds a bit much to me. And imo, it would be gift for Putin.
What matters are the stores, not the brand. If they leave, it’s all for the Russian’s state to own and manage however them they want.
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A company profiting from war?!
*insert surprised pikachu*
Sadly article forgot to mention that leroy kicking it’s employees in ukraine cause they “dared” to criticise company public stance on invasion
Meanwhile in poland due to criticism and some organisations calling for boycott leroy russian and belorussian goods, leroy reacted at this criticism accordingly, and started replacing labels on those products so they appeared to be “made in poland”
Disgusting company lead by disgusting people
russian business is with russians, wow
Looks like reused packaging to me.
I have read somewhere that Auchan has always been like that. Money don’t stink, especially for Mulliez family.
Likely Russian billionaires own significant shares of the business, so that’d make sense. Going against shareholders is something few Western countries will do.
Plus, they helped the Russian authorities collect data for the military registration and enlistment office about their employees.
Big corporations trying to make profit regardless of consequences. This really news to anybody? Instead of trying to ban memes, or trying to get people to eat insects, this is something the EU could actually look into. Making sure that corporations aren’t allowed to grow so big that they can simply get away with things such as this, by breaking large corporations into smaller entities.
After BNP Paribas with Sudan and Lafarge with ISIS, now we have Auchan with Russia. I hope one day our government watches carefully what our companies do in the world, and prevent them helping rogue states and territories
Boycott rAussan
Honestly, the stuff in the article sounds so small-scale, I have no problem believing this is all on war-friendly local Russian middle management, not some coordinated effort by the French headquarters. Sending the contents of donation boxes to soldiers instead of civilians? Not exactly something that generates a lot of money for Auchan.
Same with providing names of employees for the draft – highly doubt this was an order from the top, but more the work of local HR guys preferring to not deny a request by the Russian state.
They have over 400 stores in Russia, what should they do, donate it all to Putin? Burn them? Delete the brand entirely? It would not stop deliveries to Russian troops.
Of course it’s all about taking a political stand, but you’re asking them (the family that runs this business) to basically drop everything they’ve built their entire life without certainty it would do anything good for Ukraine. Sounds a bit much to me. And imo, it would be gift for Putin.
What matters are the stores, not the brand. If they leave, it’s all for the Russian’s state to own and manage however them they want.