REPORTAGE – Demanding more recognition in the distribution of value between the farmer, the industrialist and the mass market, they are organizing themselves to hold the headquarters on this strategic site.
The friendly honking of passers-by on this departmental road north of Mont-de-Marsan warms hearts a little. “ People here support us », Underlines Vincent Coco, president of Rural Coordination in Landes. Since this Wednesday noon, members of his organization have been arriving little by little, by tractor or car, from throughout the department, but also from the neighboring Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Gers. At the end of the morning, the new rallying point was communicated to them: Scalandes. This name designates a highly strategic place: it is not the military base, located near the capital of Landes from which Rafales take off at any time of the day or night, but the largest base regional logistics of E.Leclerc.
Measuring nearly 30 hectares, or 42 football fields, it supplies around sixty surrounding stores, as far as Lot-et-Garonne and even beyond, because it also supplies the brand's Portuguese stores…
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