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Some local Esso franchise operators say a corporate takeover is forcing them out of their jobs.
In March, Imperial Oil finalized deals to sell its remaining 497 Esso retail stations in Canada to five fuel distributors for a total of $2.8 billion, with7-Eleven Canada Inc. buying 148 stations in Alberta and British Columbia.
The deal affects63Essofranchiseesin Metro Vancouver who say they"re now desperate and struggling to find new work to help support their families.
"By this transaction, practically my company is going to be closed and I"m going to be a worker for another company," saidMasud Ahmadi, whohas been running his own Esso convenience store for 21 years.
ECOSAN owner Myles Wilcott says he was told his services for Esso would no longer be needed. (CBC)
Under their current arrangement, Essotakes the profits from the gas pumps while operators like Ahmadiearn income from the convenience store attached to them.
"We are franchisers, we own the inventory and our rent is based on our sales and everything but this model won"t work with the new company," he said.
"They"re not running similar businesses so they don"t honour our ownershipwith this business."
Ahmadi said the retailershave been offered a managerial position at half the salaryof what they make now.
"It will have a huge affect on my family," he said. "My family members who are working here my brother, my wife and my father ... [will]not able to work in the same place anymore by the new company"s standards."
The deal will also affectlocal suppliers who sell products and services likepaper towels, sandwiches and cleaning services to Esso.
"Once we heard that 7-Eleven was coming in, they let us know that essentially we would lose those accounts," said Myles Wilcott, owner ofECOSAN.
"It didn"t matter that a contract was in place or what sort of relationship we had with them, it was just simply a change of ownership so for us it means a lot of lost business."
Ahmadisaidhe"s disappointed he didn"t even get a thank you for his service just a letter that read September 27will be hislast day.
"After 21 years working for a company.And I really believed in and thought I"m part of that," he said.
"They always called us partners.What sort of partnership do we have now?"
He hopes Imperial Oil will offer operators some more help after seeing how the changes affect so many people.
In response to CBC News inquiries, an Imperial Oil spokesperson issued a writtenstatement reading that"terms of our agreements with individual retailers and with 7-Eleven Canada are proprietary and confidential.It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of offers made to retailers by 7-Eleven."
With files from Anita Bathe
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/7eleven-esso-imperial-oil-takeover-1.3669946
