Carrefour Planet

Carrefour Planet
Hypermarket
Founded 2010
Defunct 2012
Headquarters Massy, France
Area served
 Belgium, France, Greece, Spain
Parent Carrefour Group
Website carrefour.fr

Carrefour Planet was a hypermarket chain concept owned by the Carrefour Group.

Carrefour Planet was created as a new-generation hypermarket, the hypermarkets were divided into 8 centers ; marché (Market), bio, surgélés (frozen food), beauté (beauty), mode, bébé (baby), maison (home) and loisirs-multimédia (leisure-multimedia) and proposed services such as day care, a barbershop or hairdressing services.

History

In 2010, the first stores were tested in France in Écully, Vénissieux and Lattes, in Spain in El Pinar and in Belgium in Mont-Saint-Jean.

In 2011, in France, 6 regular Carrefour hypermarkets became Carrefour Planet in Essonne, La Ville-du-Bois, Les Ulis, Villabé Athis-Mons, Vitrolles and Wasquehal.

In July 2011, the first Carrefour Planet was opened in Paderno Dugnano, Italy of 13,000 square meters.[1]

In 2012, it was announced that the transformation from Carrefour to Carrefour Planet costs too much, as a result Carrefour stops further process of converting Carrefour hypermarkets, hypermarkets already converted to Planet stays as-is but loses the Planet sign in France.

As of August 2013, there are still 15 Carrefour Planet stores in Belgium,[2] 1 in Greece and 1 in Italy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Carrefour ouvre un Planet en Italie". Site des marques. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.carrefour.eu/fr/store


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