PARIS (Reuters) -French supermarket retailer Auchan is planning to cut more than 2,000 jobs, the company said on Tuesday.
The retailer said 2,389 jobs would be cut in various departments, adding that 319 jobs would be created by the changes. The company said it employs 54,000 in France.
The cuts were reported earlier on Tuesday by French media who cited trade unions.
Auchan said it would lower prices and simplify its organisation in a bid to reverse a decline in traffic in its stores since 2012.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Makini Brice; Editing by Tom Hogue and Louise Heavens)
