Repris à la suite des difficultés de Casino, 25 supermarchés ferment désormais : quelles régions sont concernées ?

The closure of 25 stores formerly operated by Casino affected eight regions of France, with the largest groups of closures in Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The stores had been taken over by the Intermarché group, but the acquisition did not secure their long-term future. These were closures reported for 26 April 2025—not a new round announced in September 2026.

A takeover that could not save every store

When Casino ran into financial difficulty, the transfer of its supermarkets offered a possible way to keep shops open and employees in work. The Intermarché group, Les Mousquetaires, took over a large number of former Casino locations and converted stores to its Intermarché and Netto banners. For many communities, a change of sign above the entrance was preferable to losing the supermarket altogether.

But taking over a store is not the same as making it viable. On 3 April 2025, Les Mousquetaires said it was considering the closure of 30 acquired locations. It said a limited number had not reached financial balance despite months of effort. Later reporting identified 25 stores due to close on 26 April, alongside two that had already shut in 2024. Three others were still awaiting a decision at the time.

That distinction matters. The 25-store figure refers to one particular wave of closures. It should not be confused with every Casino store sold during the restructuring, or with Casino locations that failed to find a buyer in an earlier, separate process.

Where did the closures fall?

The April 2025 list stretched from Brittany to the Mediterranean and from eastern France to the Atlantic side of the country. Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine each had six stores on it, followed by Île-de-France with five. Bretagne, Centre-Val de Loire and Grand Est each had two; Normandie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur each had one. Together, those regional counts make up the 25 locations.

In Occitanie, the named stores were in Blagnac and Auzeville-Tolosane near Toulouse; Millau and Decazeville in Aveyron; Perpignan in Pyrénées-Orientales; and Pont-Saint-Esprit in Gard. The spread is notable: this was not a problem confined to one city or one kind of shopping area. The list included locations associated with a major metropolitan area as well as smaller towns.

Nouvelle-Aquitaine also accounted for six: Pompaire and Niort in Deux-Sèvres, Cenon in Gironde, Fumel in Lot-et-Garonne, and Sauvagnon and Idron in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. A resident checking an old report should pay attention to the town name, not just the region. “Six in Nouvelle-Aquitaine” describes a broad area, not six closures in one local market.

The five Île-de-France stores were Meaux, Saint-Mard and Ozoir-la-Ferrière in Seine-et-Marne; Le Thillay in Val-d’Oise; and Fresnes in Val-de-Marne. Their presence on the list shows that proximity to the Paris metropolitan area did not, by itself, keep a former Casino location out of the closure plan.

Elsewhere, Bretagne’s two locations were Plonéour-Lanvern in Finistère and Le Rheu in Ille-et-Vilaine. Centre-Val de Loire’s were Châlette-sur-Loing in Loiret and La Riche in Indre-et-Loire. In Normandie, the listed town was Bagnoles-de-l’Orne; in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, it was Les Pennes-Mirabeau. Grand Est’s two locations were Metz and Dombasle-sur-Meurthe.boursorama+1

Some published lists contain small place-name errors. For example, one report prints “Ploénour-Lanvern” and “Dombasle-sur-Meuse”; the contemporaneous report carrying the group’s announcement gives Plonéour-Lanvern and Dombasle-sur-Meurthe. Another list names “Aucamville-Tolosane,” while the other accounts consulted name Auzeville-Tolosane. Those discrepancies are worth noting when searching for a particular shop.

Why did the shops close?

Les Mousquetaires presented the decision as an economic one. In its April 2025 explanation, the group cited years of insufficient investment, operating costs it considered too high for the stores’ trading conditions, and a commercial approach that had led customers towards competitors. It also said rents at some locations remained out of line with the market despite discussions with landlords. Those are the company’s stated reasons, rather than an independent diagnosis of every individual store.

A supermarket can be busy at certain hours and still struggle as a business. It has to cover staffing, premises and other running costs across the entire year. The group’s position was that, for this small portion of the acquired estate, it could not find a workable financial balance. That is why the earlier takeover and the later closure are not contradictory: the purchase kept open the possibility of a rescue, but it did not guarantee that every site would succeed.

The scale of the wider takeover also helps explain the numbers. Les Mousquetaires said in March 2025 that, among the Casino stores it had acquired, 211 had become Intermarché stores and 62 had become Netto stores, while 21 others were due to be sold at the request of France’s competition authority. The 25 closures were therefore a subset of a much larger reshaping of the network, not the fate of the entire acquired portfolio.

For employees, the distinction between a takeover and a sustainable reopening was far from abstract. The group said nearly 680 people worked across the 30 stores initially under consideration and promised individual support, including potential job opportunities elsewhere within Les Mousquetaires. Reports on the subsequent closures also described roughly 680 employees as affected. That figure should be read as a reported measure of the people caught up in the broader closure process, not as proof that every one of them lost their job.

The effect on shoppers is more local than any national total suggests. Losing a supermarket can mean changing a familiar weekly routine, travelling to a different neighbourhood or reconsidering how to make a larger grocery trip. The details vary sharply by town: a shop in a dense urban area and one serving a smaller community do not play identical roles. The published closure lists identify the places affected, but they do not establish what alternatives each household had nearby.

What the number 25 leaves out

Two other former Casino stores had already closed in 2024: one in Lyon’s 7th arrondissement and one in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne. They explain why some coverage described 27 closures in all, while still listing 25 for 26 April 2025. Counting the Lyon and Boissy-Saint-Léger sites again among April’s 25 would inflate that wave’s total.

Three more locations—Lucé in Centre-Val de Loire, and Épinal and Saint-Louis in Grand Est—were described as still at risk when the April 2025 lists were published. They were not part of the 25-store closure list. Nor should their status at that time be mistaken for a confirmed account of what happened later.

The straightforward answer, then, is geographic as well as chronological. Eight regions appeared on the April 2025 closure list, but the burden was uneven: twelve of the 25 locations were in Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine combined. Behind the regional tally were individual stores that had already gone through one disruptive change of ownership, only to face another, more final change soon afterwards.

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