E.Leclerc will sell his fuel at cost price during the next 7 weekends

The summer holidays are here, or almost, for many French people who will take out their car in the coming weeks to go green. In order not to “affect the long-awaited summer holidays of the French”, the boss of E.Leclerc announced that the fuel will be sold at cost price every weekend between June 30 and August 13 in all its stations. service. For motorists, these are small savings.

“No margin” at 696 gas stations

The purchasing power of the French must be protected, the distributor explains again before explaining in a press release that this operation will affect 696 service stations.

“Without margin” insists on Franceinfo the president of the cartel Michel-Edouard Leclerc. According to him, this operation could even have a contagion effect: “Our competitors will be forced to train and I hope we will invigorate the market,” he said.

However, the savings at the pump should not be very high for motorists, with fuel margins very low, just a few cents.

In a different form, Casino also offers pump discounts that motorists can only use at their stores and under certain conditions. “From Friday 23 to Saturday 24 June, the liter of fuel will return to 1 euro after reimbursement of the difference in the form of a voucher of a maximum of 50 euros, valid the same day until Sunday 25 June at 12:30 p.m. (for stores open that day with staff), from 120 euros of purchase ”, explains the competing brand in its latest press release.

Michel-Edouard Leclerc is “pissed off”

If E.Leclerc and his president repeat that they are thus giving a “concrete response” to the rise in prices, Michel-Edouard Leclerc seems to have another reason: he is “very upset”.

Guilty? TotalEnergies and the discount on the pump that the oil giant offered a few months ago in France. “The competition authorities have accepted a type of discrimination, TotalEnergies […] did not pass on its discount to its indirect customers,” he said.

The president of TotalEnergies “does not have to give me a discount,” he acknowledges, “but he is my supplier,” he adds without hiding his annoyance, to which his decision to offer fuel at cost price this summer also contributed.