Service stations offer soon Total sales of products traded by the retail giant reveals the Parisien on Monday. If the agreement is not finalized yet, but it should be signed in "coming weeks", the newspaper said.

2000 service stations on the 4,500 that currently account for Total in France are concerned. A lucrative potential market for the retail giant, is seeking to develop, under the leadership of its CEO Lars Olofsson, its network of small supermarkets. With 2,000 additional outlets, the group undergoing a transformation might indeed find a market for its products, and therefore exert additional pressure on its suppliers.It is on this point is that Total advantage partnership: distributing products purchased by Carrefour but not necessarily brand Carrefour, the retailer said the oil group could see lower prices and gain competitive teletrek no payday advance .

For the economic model of service stations relies increasingly on the sale of products with or unrelated to the essence. In a context where the consumption of petroleum products tends to decline, and where the imposition of environmental criteria reduces the margin of these operators, the sale of food takes a bigger share of profits generated by the stations. However, their number decreases in the territory inexorably.After Shell and BP, Total has recently announced its intention to close 500 of its outlets in France …

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