Photos : Closure of Carrefour supermarkets in Belgium, social disaster in sight

Liège, Belgium. January 25, 2018. Following Carrefour’s announcement of a restructuring plan, workers at the Carrefour hypermarket in Belle-Ile decided to close the store in protest.

The management of Carrefour Belgium has announced the closure of several hypermarkets in Belgium. This represents several hundred jobs on the country.
At the scale of the Belle-Ile hypermarket in Liège, 140 jobs would be lost.

This announcement of Carrefour arrives in a difficult news for a sector already strongly weakened. A social disaster in perspective.