“Ladies and gentlemen, your Auchan store is permanently closed this Saturday, May 17, 2025. It was a real pleasure serving you. Thanks everyone! » Their voices choked with emotion, the last employees of the hypermarket had delivered their farewells to the microphone, a few minutes before the curtain fell. Ten months later, the scene still resonates as a trauma for an entire neighborhood.
North of Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), the immense 9,100 m2 building has still not found a buyer. The Mulliez group, owner of Auchan, left behind 200 employees and an already fragile neighborhood that was a little more destabilized. Since then, political promises have followed one another to the rhythm of the electoral agenda, like on February 11 when the City announced the return of a 2000 m2 food business. But at the foot of the Croix-de-Neyrat towers, nothing moves.