Lidl wants to cut 550 support positions to gain agility.

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    "title": "Lidl wants to cut 550 support positions to gain agility.",
    "excerpt": "Lidl wants to cut 550 support positions to gain agility.\n\nLidl France announced on Thursday to trade unions its intention to centralize its support functions, which are currently spread across around thirty regional offices in mainland France. The 550 positions to be eliminated will be based on voluntary departures.\n\nPublished on April 9, 2026 at 17:06\n\nPremium Reserved for our Premium subscribers\n\nInvesting in prices to regain market share in France's highly competitive mass retail market requires resources. To free up more, Lidl France has decided to optimize its organization by centralizing it. The leading discounter in mainland France presented a plan to trade unions this Thursday to eliminate up to 550 positions in the support functions of its approximately thirty regional offices, representing 1.2% of its total workforce.\n\n\"Lidl France wants to recentralize its order management services, human resources, and commercial planning activities at its headquarters in Strasbourg and Châtenay-Malabry. The company also aims to simplify processes, notably through AI,\" says a union source. \"Management plans three more meetings with us to negotiate a collective conventional termination agreement that should improve the proposed departure conditions. These must be done on a voluntary basis,\" she details.\n\nThis content is reserved for Premium and Premium Business subscribers\n\nBusiness...",
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