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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Carrefour of Saudi Arabia issued a statement confirming that 95% of its products come from local suppliers, noting that its ownership is owned by Majid Al Futtaim, based in the United Arab Emirates.
“Carrefour offers more than 2,800 direct and indirect jobs, and we are proud that Saudi citizens represent 40% of the workforce,” Saudi Carrefour said in a statement posted on its official Twitter page.
Carrefour Saudi Arabia continued in its statement to “support the culture of tolerance and respect for all personal and religious beliefs of the local community”.
For its part, Carrefour Kuwait and Jordan published two statements on its official page, in which they clarified the number of job opportunities they offer in addition to the tariffs for sourcing from local suppliers.
In recent days, social networking sites have witnessed widespread campaigns calling for a boycott of French products, amid statements by French officials led by President Emmanuel Macron, deemed “offensive” to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, after the murder of a French teacher by a young Muslim of Chechen origin.
Some countries in the Middle East region, some formally and others unofficially, have joined the campaign to boycott French products and products, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on people “not to approach the products French and to refrain from buying them “, while a non-governmental supermarket chain announced in Kuwait, the boycott of French products in more than 50 of its outlets in the country.
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