At the Carrefour shareholders' general meeting, the protest was kept at a safe distance

Carrefour clearly had no intention of repeating the experience of its 2024 shareholders' general meeting , which was heckled by more than 150 CFDT and CGT activists, their boos and invectives . After several editions at the Docks d'Aubervilliers, the meeting was scheduled for the group's headquarters in Massy (Essonne) on Wednesday, May 28. Around it, an impressive security perimeter: at least eight gendarmerie vans and the national police, on foot and on horseback, mobilized to keep music and union flags at a distance, and direct arrivals.

In the first room, the CEO, the board of directors, the major shareholders, and the journalists. At the other end of the site, the small shareholders, including the union activists, are installed, according to the description of a CFDT representative, in "the first of the four parking floors converted into a showroom." The sound from the second room does not reach the first, except during questions, the image barely: the small shareholders are filmed from a distance and from behind.

It was therefore in a hushed atmosphere that Alexandre Bompard was able to present his assessment and objectives, praising the "resilience of the model" of Carrefour in 2024 despite a "complex market environment" , a "disinflation of prices coupled with the fall in volumes", purchasing power under pressure and increased competition, starting with the "price offensive" led by E.Leclerc.

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