date:Jun 12, 2014
aize cut around 5,000 jobs and closed stores in the United States and southeastern Europe. The company, which makes most of its money in the United States, employed 160,000 people at the end of 2013.
As part of the Belgian restructuring, the group will close 14 underperforming company-operated stores of a total of 147 in the country.
It also has a large number of smaller stores, operating as franchises, which will not affected by the announcement.
Delhaize is not the only grocer to have felt