Carrefour: PepsiCo giant products are back on shelves two months after their recall

“PepsiCo products are back on our shelves,” Carrefour said on Wednesday. “The agreement was reached, as we wanted, in the interests of the customer,” the distributor said two months after the product was withdrawn from the brand.

France chief executive Alexandre de Palmas posted a photo on shelves earlier in the day holding a bottle of Pepsi with the caption: “It’s good to see friends again who we haven’t seen for a long time.

Lay’s or Doritos chips, Quaker cereal, Pepsi or 7Up soda, Lipton sweet tea… “We are no longer selling this brand due to unacceptable price increases,” Carrefour said in early January on posters on its supermarket shelves. France.

“No influence”

The delisting also affected Carrefour stores in Belgium, Spain and Italy, according to a source familiar with the situation.

During the presentation of the distributor’s annual results at the end of February, its executive director of finance and management, Mathieu Malige, noted that the delisting had “no impact” on turnover as the group still had inventory of PepsiCo products being sold.

PepsiCo did not immediately respond to a question in the US on Wednesday. A spokesman for the US giant said in early January that “negotiations with Carrefour have been ongoing for many months and we will continue to do so in good faith to ensure the availability of our products.”

This operation reflected the balance of power that emerges each year between distributors and manufacturers in the commercial negotiations that determine the terms of sale (purchase price, shelf space, promotion calendar, etc.) of much of the product sold in supermarkets.