Retail Ethics

When you enter the 4th quarter of the year, retailers and suppliers also enter the ultimate battle zone of negotiations of the following year.

And it looks like Casino stores (part of the French retailer Groupe Casino) are going down the road every supplier avoids to enter, the break where the two sides start pulling in their own directions and conditions and end up not getting anywhere, thus removing the product(s) from the shelves becomes inevitable.

Below is a sample, for English readers, the sign says: “You will not find the Puget products on our shelves because we did not accept their excessive price increase, instead discover the Casino oil – Casino gets engaged for you”.