Quimperlé – Faced with the blockade of farmers, supermarkets forced to close in Quimperlé – Le Télégramme

They wanted to give a wide echo to their anger. Bet won! This Saturday, February 5, around 10 a.m., the convoy made up of around thirty tractors did not go unnoticed between the cooperative dryer in Kervidanou, where they had agreed to meet, and the Leclerc hypermarket, the first target of the operation punch in the country of Quimperlé, and one of the six actions carried out in Finistère at the call of the Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions of Finistère (FDSEA) and Young Farmers.

“The increase in charges weighs on all farms”

Agricultural machinery has blocked all access to the supermarket, causing a slowdown in rue de Pont-Aven and taking many customers by surprise, forced to change their habits and move to another supermarket. “It is a question of putting pressure on the commercial negotiations in progress at the national level between the representatives of the industrialists, the transformers, the large distribution and the agricultural unions”, recalls Louis Parc, the co-president of the Young farmers of the country of Quimperlé. Breeders, grain farmers or vegetable producers, they are all in the same cart. “The increase in charges weighs on all farms. For an average farm of 200 sows, like mine, the costs now amount to €15,000 per month, a large part of which is for animal feed”, testifies a farmer.

A communication that goes wrong

Faced with this offensive, the hypermarket had to close its doors at noon. “The important thing is to secure customers, employees and the tool,” says Jonathan Morvan, the director. But in Quimperlé, as in Scaër, the Leclerc brand and its “cost price” policy is particularly in the sights of farmers. “With his provocative speeches on the purchasing power of consumers, while preserving his margins to the detriment of farmers, Michel-Édouard Leclerc exposes himself to anger”, warns Jean-Alain Divanac’h, the president of the FDSEA of the Finistere. “This demonstration is the sign of a fed up. Farmers can no longer suffer from this economic pressure which undermines the agricultural world, discourages the installation of young people, even the most motivated, compromises the future of certain farms and postpones the implementation of measures to respect the environmental standards. It is really time to consider raw material prices and production costs as expected the Egalim 2 law “Warns the trade unionist.

After blocking the main access roads to Leclerc with earth and rubble, the farmers headed for the Intermarché in Kervidanou at 3:30 p.m., forcing the supermarket to close at 4 p.m. Same reason, same punishment, the tractors finished “their tour” of supermarkets at Carrefour Market, around 5 p.m.