The Southwest lacks cigarettes. In the tobacconists of Gironde, Dordogne or even Haute-Garonne, cigarette packs are much less numerous than usual: delivery delays, even ruptures, interrupt the supply of tobacconists since a movement has been launched within one of the largest French tobacco companies. distributors “At some point, if we continue without distributing, we will have to close,” lamented a Toulouse tobacconist at the beginning of the week after France 3 Occitania.
Logista, a supplier to French tobacconists, announced last week the closure of one of its four French stores, in Colomiers (Haute-Garonne), alluding to a “structural drop in the volumes of tobacco products” for “more than ten years”. as well as the new price increases imposed by the State, as reported by Toulouse News. The site, where around 60 people work, will close its doors in September 2023. When management announced this, employees at the site in question went on strike, halting and then slowing down cigarette distribution.
4500 tobacconists
However, the site distributes tobacco to 4,500 tobacconists in about twenty departments in the south-west of France. Some tobacconists were forced to go directly to the warehouse and wait several hours to collect the merchandise. If the supply of tobacco continues to be interrupted at present, alternating between strikers and minimum service, Logista’s management has promised that deliveries will resume normally in the coming days.
Source: BFM TV
