After nearly four months, he continues the shots for the surprise closure of the Carrefour hypermarket from the city of Balcarce. According to sources, between 35 and 43 people were unemployed. The decision triggered a domino effect in the city as the local long-distance bus terminal also operated there, as well as two covered paddle tennis courts with scheduled tournaments and was the headquarters of the Technical Vehicle Verification.
On 24 November last year at noon, customers of the Carrefour hypermarket in Balcarce were “invited” to leave what they had in their little monkeys and leave. The company’s activity, which began in 2010 after the acquisition of the site from Toledo, had ended.
The decision had other effects as there were around 40 people working there and the local bus terminal worked on the property. This resulted in clashes with Mayor Esteban Reino who, however, learned of the closure a couple of hours earlier.
kingdom indicated clarion: “We were surprised badly. In addition to the sources of work that are lost, the question of the terminal complicates us ”. Currently the municipality is managing the move to another building in the middle of the crossroads with the company.
The general secretary of the local trade workers, Jorge Iannone, and the workers themselves discovered it. Iannone said they informed him that “the shop, as they call it, had been down for a year. gave losses and that the building was in need of nearly $1,000 million in repairs. And they told him that this operation was unfeasible.
Walter Salinas, an employee of the hypermarket for almost 20 years, claims it instead “Sales targets were exceeded nearly 20% month over month.”
When Carrefour bought the business from Toledo, 125 people were employed there. In 2022, there were 43. In 2010, the building had an arcade with five shops, a food court and two cinemas. The latter sectors had been shut down and fenced off about five years ago.
Another former employee, who asked for his name to be reserved, criticized part of the local trade policy claiming that they “were selling packaged meat, which the Balcarcanese don’t eat” and found it surprising that they sometimes sold potatoes at a higher price than local.
Another source suggested on the property that “he it lacked a shopping centre (for premises closed by Carrefour). I’m with the rent prices of shopping malls in Buenos Aires and people here don’t pay them. They had half the place unused for years. Including two cinemas.
Source: Clarin
