Tag "Carrefour"
Carrefour opens store with facial recognition and sensors
Date: 2019-06-20 08:30:59
Carrefour has opened its own version of Amazon Go in its head office in Massy (near Paris), where the chain is trying out facial recognition and registerless shopping. In the small, automated store...
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Carrefour Belgium to open in-store pharmacies
Date: 2019-05-15 21:23:42
Carrefour Belgium has joined forces with Medi-Market Group to introduce shop-in-shop pharmacies and para-pharmacies in its retail outlets. The Medi-Market sales area within Carrefour stores will offer a wide range of...
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Nestlé-Carrefour: consumer access to blockchain-based product information
Date: 2019-05-15 15:55:37
Nestlé and Carrefour have announced that they are giving consumers the chance to access information from the first blockchain on a national brand in Europe. Shoppers will receive ‘reliable and...
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Biometric payment in Bucharest
Date: 2019-05-02 11:50:57
Carrefour Romania has announced that they are testing a biometric payment system in the Skanska supermarket in Bucharest. The new payment system has been installed at the store’s conventional and...
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‘Too Good To Go’ Extends Service To 240 Carrefour Stores
Date: 2019-04-23 11:30:25
Carrefour Belgium has announced that around 240 stores are now a part of the ‘Too Good To Go’ initiative, with 84 Carrefour Hypermarkets and Carrefour Market joining the platform on...
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Carrefour store in Poland urges shoppers to bring their own bags
Date: 2019-04-10 12:35:46
Carrefour Polska has announced that customers in its store in Bydgoszcz can now bring their own containers and bags for grocery purchases. It is the first store in the network...
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Carrefour uses blockchain technology to track the path of milk
Date: 2019-04-10 11:28:18
French retail giant Carrefour is using blockchain technology to let consumers trace information about the source of its milk products. Starting this month, the company will start selling Carrefour Quality...
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Carrefour: new store format in Italy and Belgium
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:28
In Portogruaro Carrefour Italia debuts with a new hypermarket that aims at making shopping simpler: they sell organic fruits and vegetables supplied by local farmers, ready meals to go, there...
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Leclerc and Carrefour: new pick-up locations for pedestrians
Date: 2019-01-31 06:59:21
‘E.Leclerc Relais’ is the name of Leclerc’s latest, 7th pick-up location for pedestrians in Paris, which opened on 9 January. Carrefour has also announced that before the end of January...
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Kantar: Mercadona is the Spanish market leader
Date: 2018-11-20 17:38:34
Data from Kantar Worldpanel show that the biggest Spanish grocery retailer, Mercadona already has a nearly 25-percent market share in the country. The fastest developing chain is Lidl (with a...
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Carrefour pulls manufacturer brands from four stores
Date: 2018-10-15 13:10:07
Carrefour removes the products of several manufacturer brands from the shelves of four stores in France. As part of the ‘Carrefour 2022’ transformation plan, the experiment tries to find out...
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Carrefour optimises logistics operations in Poland
Date: 2018-10-01 16:21:01
Carrefour’s Polish affiliate has announced that the company’s vehicles had driven 2 million kilometres less last year, after the introduction of a new transportation management system. Thanks to thy system...
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Carrefour expands its organic product selection
Date: 2018-08-25 09:37:05
The organic product market has kept growing in recent years in France. This is the reason why Carrefour has bought organic product distributor chain So.bio. So.bio operates in the province of...
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Strategic alliance between Tesco and Carrefour
Date: 2018-07-02 11:30:18
Tesco and Carrefour announced a long-term strategic alliance. The UK’s largest retail network and the French chain of stores, the largest retail conglomerate in Europe, published a joint statement of...
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Carrefour introduces the blockchain technology in Europe
Date: 2018-05-25 06:06:30
Launching the blockchain technology is an integral part of the retail chain’s restructuring plan, ‘Carrefour2022’. Blockchain is a secure digital database that can’t be falsified, in which all information sent...
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Waste oil collected in Romania
Date: 2017-07-01 08:26:50
Carrefour Romania has started collecting waste oil from customers, in order to reduce the chain’s ecological footprint. Shoppers can take back 1-4kg of filtered waste oil in transparent bottles. In...
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Worldwide retail revenue reached 4 trillion dollars
Date: 2017-03-21 09:49:45
According to an analysis by Deloitte, sales of the world’s 250 leading retailers improved by 5 percent in 2015, generating a revenue of USD 4.31 trillion. Although sales of Wal-Mart...
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Magazine: The world’s food industry until 2021
Date: 2017-03-03 07:17:15
According to a study conducted by IGD Retail Analysis on the trends that will shape food retail trade in 2016-2021, purchasing power will grow, but retailers can only benefit from...
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New store design from Carrefour
Date: 2016-04-29 10:42:29
Carrefour Italia opened its first Carrefour Gourmet supermarket in Milan. In the two-storey shop shoppers can choose from 20,000 products, from carefully selected Italian groceries to special ingredients of Asian...
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Wage increase from Carrefour in Romania
Date: 2016-04-01 10:40:15
Carrefour Romania significantly increased employee wages and announced that they will also get EUR 44 worth of food vouchers every month, which they can redeem in Carrefour hypermarkets. Wages will...
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Carrefour’s revenue is in line with the expectations
Date: 2016-01-15 11:07:32
Carrefour France’s largest retailer, reported a fourth-quarter revenue that met the estimates of analysts. Revenue increased by 2.4 percent on an organic basis to 22.4 billion euros -the Boulogne-Billancourt, France-based...
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Carrefour is expanding in Romania
Date: 2016-01-04 11:03:55
Carrefour announced that the company took over 86 Billa supermarkets in Romania, acquiring the chain from its competitor Rewe group. The supermarkets have a total sales area of 83,000 square...
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The humanoid robot made its debut in France
Date: 2015-10-28 11:00:14
Pepper, the humanoid robot was first revealed more than a year ago at a conference on June 5 2014. Starting the next day Pepper was showcased to the public at...
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Rising revenues at Carrefour
Date: 2015-10-16 11:13:34
Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer group, increased its sales by 4.2 percent in the third quarter this year, compared tio the same period of the previous year – according...
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Carrefour increased its revenue
Date: 2015-07-20 11:10:00
The Carrefour, which is the world's second largest and Europe's largest retail company has announced its second-quarter performance. The French mammoth company’s revenue rose by 4.2 percent to 21.3 billion...
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New commercial leader at Danone
Date: 2015-07-02 10:09:16
From July 1st, the new commercial leader of Danone is Fabrizio Sforza, wo has a significan past in the FMCG-field...
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