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Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Rogel — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:10:04 -0000

LOL
The fact is that I don't think that any regulation should prevent a store from boycotting anyone that they desire to. However since I beleive that Carrefour's actions are moraly wrong (objectivist, remmember? :) ) I hope that the Eoropean public will punish them in the only effective way by boycotting them.
It is that simple

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Tanner — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:20:34 -0000

somewhere that just happens to have no Portugese food products on its shelves. But it's not "boycotting" Portugal per se. It's just not buying those particular products. And we're all sure that's legal.

For that matter, Carrefour, as a whole, isn't boycotting Denmark, as a whole. It's just not selling Danish products in some of its stores outside the EU. It would be impressive if the EU had a law for that - a law that says "a company may not refuse to display a country's goods on its shelves solely because of local hatred for that country."

Then again, we're talking about EU regulations here. So who knows but that some enterprising young bureaucrat didn't stick such a law in among the 10,000 pages or so that some commission enacted into law in any given month of the last few years.

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Rogel — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:32:55 -0000

Good Point Tanner, it will be interesting to see how the EU going to react to boycott products of EU members.

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Tanner — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:11:44 -0000

makes clear that Carrefour is only joining the growing "boycott" of Danish goods from its stores in Muslim countries. (Which I also think pretty cowardly but somehow more understandable from a business standpoint.)

I doubt that any of this is somehow "protectionism" in disguise. Carrefour has little to gain from favoring French products, unless it is itself a manufacturer of a large proportion of the French food products it sells.

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Tanner — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:04:07 -0000

this story indicates that only the Carrefour stores in the United Arab Emirates and Quatar have instituted this policy. . .

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Rogel — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:03:52 -0000

It might be intended for the cunsamption of more then just the store clients but for future deals in the Middle - East. this is, obvioulsy pure speculation, but i wouldn't be sorprized if it is true.

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Tanner — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:54:55 -0000

Odd that this French chain wrote their notice in English and Arabic (and not French). I know there are a good number of Muslims in France who can hardly read Arabic (although they might be better at English.)

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Rogel — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:34:02 -0000

I knew that you going to enjoy it. the strenth of the EU in time of crisis, Hmm... this is very good point Cathy, very good indeed.

Re: Carrefour don’t buy Danish

Catherine Fletcher — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:22:38 -0000

Wait. A EU company is boycotting another EU company in favor of the Islamic and Egyptian community? Is this the French way for punishing the Danish for opting out of monetary union? For protecting themselves against their Muslim community? Or (more likely) a way to decrease competition for French products? Ca, c'est la faon franaise.