Tag "Carrefour"
Private Labels Are Quietly Winning Europe’s Grocery Shelves
Date: 2025-06-16 09:53:50
Private labels are no longer just catching up – they are outpacing. Across Europe, retailer brands are expanding in both share and stature, aided by structural, political, and shopper-driven tailwinds....
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Carrefour seeks buyer for Italian branch
Date: 2025-06-16 09:33:19
Carrefour is considering leaving Italy: the retailer is said to be holding discreet talks with European retailers about a sale of its operations in the country. Among others, Lidl, Esselunga...
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Carrefour aims to open 100 stores in Spain this year
Date: 2025-06-11 09:38:07
Carrefour Spain aims to open at least 100 stores this year, which should take it over the milestone of 1,600 outlets in the country. This will strengthen the retailer’s market-leading position in...
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Carrefour launches its first AI-based solution in Spain
Date: 2025-06-05 11:17:16
French retail chain Carrefour has chosen Spain to implement its first AI solution: the virtual assistant called AI.Carrefour is based on Gemini 2.0 technology and will initially support 3,000 employees....
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Display 2.0 – the sales floor of the future
Date: 2025-05-26 11:53:36
In-store display is becoming a smart device – we could learn at Shop! Global Retail Trade Association’s April webinar, where Bram van Schijndel Tromp, the CEO of Pure Value Europe...
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Carrefour Polska Expands Pistachio Product Range
Date: 2025-05-19 09:32:46
Carrefour Polska is expanding its pistachio-flavoured product offering to more than 100 SKUs, to meet the growing demand for this increasingly popular ingredient. Pistachios are currently one of the most...
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Auchan’s Spanish Unit Alcampo To Shutter 25 Stores, Cut Over 700 Jobs
Date: 2025-05-12 10:20:30
Alcampo, the Spanish unit of French retailer Auchan, has announced that it will close 25 supermarkets in Spain and cut up to 710 jobs, as part of a restructuring plan....
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Carrefour sales under pressure in France and Belgium
Date: 2025-04-28 09:37:17
Mixed figures from Carrefour in Europe in the first quarter are compensated by strong results in Latin America. The retailer continues to invest in price cuts, private brands, e-commerce and...
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Carrefour Belgium tests profitability of Reckon.ai’s smart vending machines
Date: 2025-04-10 09:46:48
Carrefour Belgium has implemented its BuyBye micro-store format for the first time at the site of one of its hypermarkets, Retail Optimiser reports. Customers of the Carrefour store in the...
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Too Good To Go unveils food waste reduction platform
Date: 2025-03-28 15:08:58
Too Good To Go has launched a new AI-powered platform to help retailers reduce food waste and thus increase profits. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/4....
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Picnic joins forces with Intermarché in France
Date: 2025-03-19 09:28:15
In France, Dutch online supermarket Picnic is swapping its current partner Coopérative U for Intermarché, the supermarket chain that is affiliated to the same buying alliance, Everest. Picnic’s French hubs...
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Carrefour Polska Launches New Pricing Policy For Essential Products
Date: 2025-03-14 09:07:15
Carrefour Polska has initiated a new strategy, effective from March, to ensure that the prices of over 500 essential products match the lowest prices in major competing retail chains. Part...
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Carrefour launches new convenience store concept in French stations
Date: 2025-03-05 09:01:35
Carrefour has signed an agreement to provide 45 metro stations around Paris with a new concept of convenience stores, focused on commuters. The plan could involve up to 136 spaces in the...
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Carrefour wants to expand Belgian Sunday openings
Date: 2025-02-18 09:49:05
Carrefour intends to open its Belgian company-operated stores (44 supermarkets and 40 hypermarkets) on Sundays as well. The unions were “surprised” by the initiative, but are “willing to engage in discussions”. As...
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Kaufland Poland in Need of Transformation
Date: 2025-02-06 09:14:38
Kaufland Poland has become the problem child of Kaufland’s international business. The Wroclaw-based subsidiary of the German superstore operator plunged into the red in the past fiscal year, posting a...
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Carrefour ends distribution of brochures in France
Date: 2025-02-05 09:16:42
Carrefour has announced that it will cease the home delivery of unaddressed paper promotional brochures in its home market of France on 31 March. This move is part of the retailer’s...
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Carrefour Teams Up With Lagardère For French Train Station Stores
Date: 2025-01-28 09:19:34
Retailer Carrefour has teamed up with Lagardère Travel Retail to roll out approximately 150 outlets in French stations over the next five years. Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said in a...
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Carrefour Exits Oman, Expands Delivery In Spain, Launches New Loyalty Programme In France
Date: 2025-01-22 09:37:06
After nearly three decades of operation in Oman, French retailer Carrefour has ceased its operations in the country. Carrefour, a major player in the Middle East with over 320 stores...
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Carrefour offloads another 39 French stores
Date: 2025-01-15 09:52:44
Carrefour is offloading 39 French – often loss-making – hypermarkets and supermarkets to independent operators in a bid to cut operating costs. Unions protest to what they call is a restructuring...
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Carrefour launches 24/7 express grocery delivery in Dubai
Date: 2024-12-19 09:08:10
The service offers over 10,000 products. Carrefour, operated by Majid Al Futtaim Retail in the UAE, has launched a 24/7 express grocery delivery service in Dubai. The pilot hub, initially...
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Romania’s AuGust Eyes Purchase Of 87 Stores From Ahold Delhaize
Date: 2024-12-16 09:21:46
Romanian convenience store chain AuGust is negotiating to buy 87 Profi and Mega Image stores from Ahold Delhaize in Romania. The sale of the stores is a requirement placed by Romania’s...
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Carrefour Italia Focuses On Franchising And Italian Organic Products
Date: 2024-11-25 09:07:32
Carrefour Italia is implementing a recovery strategy focused on franchising expansion and its Act for Food programme. This follows a disappointing summer and a 3.5% drop in first-half sales, to...
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Carrefour requires suppliers to disclose Nutri-Score
Date: 2024-11-14 09:51:28
In France, all branded Carrefour suppliers will be required to state the Nutri-Score of their products on the retailer’s website and app. Those who refuse to do so will be...
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Carrefour Ramps Up Support For French Food Banks
Date: 2024-11-13 09:11:02
Carrefour has reaffirmed its support for La Fédération Française des Banques Alimentaires, the federation of French food banks, with a planned €1.5 million in donations over three years. The retailer...
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Carrefour teams up with Bringo to collect packaging waste in Romania
Date: 2024-11-04 17:41:58
In partnership with food delivery service Bringo, Carrefour is collecting used packaging in Romania. As part of the initiative, customers of any Carrefour hypermarket will be able to return empty...
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Carrefour uses AI to reduce food waste in Belgium
Date: 2024-10-31 10:08:57
Every day Carrefour has to discount 40,000 near-expiry items in its 831 large stores in Belgium. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/10 As this is a...
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Wasteless AI Launches In 640 Carrefour Stores In Argentina
Date: 2024-10-30 09:56:00
Carrefour Argentina has completed the rollout of Wasteless AI across all 640 of its stores. This collaboration aims to drastically reduce food waste, lower markdown costs by 54%, and offer...
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Carrefour feels impact of price competition and Sunday openings
Date: 2024-10-24 09:48:30
Carrefour sees sales rising thanks to encouraging evolutions in consumer behaviour. But in France price investments are weighing on revenues, while in Belgium Sunday openings at Delhaize are playing tricks...
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Carrefour Commences Rebranding Of Cora Stores
Date: 2024-10-11 09:28:53
Carrefour has commenced the rebranding of the Cora supermarkets that it acquired in July, with the first 19 stores set to be rebranded on 1 October. Following this, a second...
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Carrefour Spain Invests Over €84m in Price Reduction Initiative
Date: 2024-09-30 09:20:55
Carrefour Spain is investing over €84 million this year in a series of price reductions to support its customers amidst cost-of-living concerns. From September, Carrefour has reduced prices on 2,500...
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