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  • Carrefour to hire 15,000 young people in France next year

    Carrefour to hire 15,000 young people in France next year

    Carrefour plans to hire 15,000 young people in France next year, and half of them would come from disadvantaged neighborhoods, CEO Alexandre Bompard said on Tuesday.

    ”Approximately 750,000 young people enter the labor market each year,” Alexandre Bompard, Carrefour general manager told RTL radio, talking to workers up to the age of 25.

    ”They always have a hard time finding a place in the labor market. This year, for those we call the ‘COVID Generation’, it is extremely complicated. The doors are closed because many companies are facing difficulties,” Bompard said.

    ”We have decided to hire 15,000 young people next year, 50% more than usual, and I want 50% of these young people to come from disadvantaged neighborhoods,” he added.

    Carrefour has 321,000 employees worldwide, of which 105,000 in France.

  • Supeco launched its own e-commerce website in France

    Supeco launched its own e-commerce website in France

    Supeco, Carrefour’s soft discount brand, launched its e-commerce website, with a non-food-focused offering.

    The Carrefour Group’s Omnicanality and Customer Experience teams have launched Supeco’s first e-commerce site in 10 days.

    This e-shop offers nearly 450 non-food references, as well as a hundred in the Yapu Yapu category, destocking products sold exclusively at attractive prices.

    All of these products are available for sale, in click and collect, in the 5 existing stores. Customers will be able to find products from the home, beauty, high tech, leisure or toy departments.

  • Carrefour freezes the prices on more than 20.000 products in Belgium

    Carrefour freezes the prices on more than 20.000 products in Belgium

    Carrefour Belgium has implemented a number of different price initiatives since the start of the crisis (that includes lowering the prices on a thousand products in May and launching its ”healthy price” campaign in September). 

    For the last two months of the year, the retailer has decided to freeze the prices of all of its products (both national and Carrefour branded ones).

    That’s more than 20.000 products at its hypermarkets and more than 10.000 at its Market and Express stores.

    However, this initiative, which runs from 1 November to 31 December 2020, will not apply to special offers, fresh produce with highly variable prices (fish, seasonal fruit and vegetables) and products made by local producers with short distribution channels.

  • Carrefour sold a 60% stake in its Market Pay payments platform

    Carrefour sold a 60% stake in its Market Pay payments platform

    Carrefour announces the disposal of a 60% stake in its Market Pay payments platform to AnaCap Financial Partners, a specialist investor in European financial services.

    This all-cash transaction gets Market Pay at an enterprise value of c.300 million euros.

    Developed by Carrefour teams since in 2016, Market Pay handles 1.3 billion transactions per year and manages 45.000 payment terminals and 5 million cards.

    The platform experienced strong and continuous growth since its inception. In 2020, Market Pay expects to post net sales of over 30 million euros.

    This transaction will result in the recognition of a capital gain of 245 million euros in the group’s accounts and is expected to close in the first half of 2021.

  • Record sales for Carrefour in Q3 2020

    Record sales for Carrefour in Q3 2020

    Excellent sales for Carrefour in Q3 2020, +8.4% on a like-for-like basis (LFL), best performance in at least 20 years.

    In Brazil (+26.0% LFL), a record growth for the company. Carrefour Retail (+26.6% LFL) fully benefited from the repositioning launched in 2018. Also, customers favor Atacadão (+25.8% LFL), the market’s most competitive commercial model.

    In France (+3.8% LFL), the transformation is accelerating in hypermarkets (+2.5% LFL), supermarkets (+4.9% LFL) and convenience (+5.3% LFL) continued on a positive trajectory.

    In Spain (+6.3% LFL).

    The company registered a strong growth in food e-commerce, above +65% in Q3.

  • Carrefour subsidiary So.bio to acquire specialist banner Bioazur

    Carrefour subsidiary So.bio to acquire specialist banner Bioazur

    Carrefour announced that its subsidiary So.bio is to acquire Bioazur, a network of five stores specialising in the sale of organic products in south-western France (Albi, Castres, Rodez, Gaillac and Revel).

    This purchase is in line with Carrefour’s plan to bolster its specialist organic business that began in 2019 with its acquisition of So.bio.

    The So.bio network is now present at 22 sales outlets, up from eight when it was first acquired. This figure should increase to 30 by the end of 2020.

    The acquisition will happen over the next few weeks.

  • Carrefour has reached an agreement to acquire 172 Supersol stores in Spain

    Carrefour has reached an agreement to acquire 172 Supersol stores in Spain

    The transaction involves 172 convenience stores and supermarkets, located mainly in Andalusia and the Madrid region. The enterprise value of the transaction is 78 million euros.

    The acquired stores posted net sales of around 450 million euros in 2019.

    Carrefour plans to convert the acquired stores to the convenience (Express), supermarket (Market) and Supeco formats.

    This acquisition will contribute to the development of food e-commerce, with the stores eventually becoming new order pick-up points.

    Around 90% of the acquired stores are located in large cities (Madrid, Malaga, Cadiz and Seville).

    The transaction is subject to customary conditions and is expected to close at the beginning of 2021.

  • Carrefour and Uber Eats launch their delivery service in Belgium

    Carrefour and Uber Eats launch their delivery service in Belgium

    After France, Carrefour Belgium will soon be the third country to benefit from Uber Eats partnership: it will be operational in September, with the service being launched in Brussels and Liège.

    Belgium will be testing a 30-minute shopping delivery service, as well as meal box solutions.

    How Carrefour – Uber Eats partnership started

    As of 6 April across the capital and throughout the Paris region, consumers have been able to do their food shopping on Uber Eats.

    At the start of lockdown, both brands joined forces to help consumers get hold of everyday products getting them delivered to their home within 30 minutes, dispatched from fifteen or so Carrefour stores. 

    The service was rolled out to 100 stores at the end of April, then 200 at the start of June and then 300 stores at the start of July.

    As of 20 July, the service is now available via 330 sales outlets and covers 91 major urban areas, 25% of the French population.

    250 essential everyday items can be delivered

    More and more products are being added every week: from the 130 products available at launch, consumers can now choose from more than 250 essential everyday items, with the aim being to increase this to 500 by early September.

    Carrefour Market and Carrefour City both feature on the Uber Eats app and other Carrefour Group formats are shortly to be included.

    The service, exclusively available outside Paris 

    Following these promising results, Uber Eats and Carrefour have signed an exclusive agreement to launch a shopping home delivery service for the whole of France. The idea is for shopping to be delivered within 30 minutes using the meal delivery apps available.

    Carrefour and Uber Eats both remain free to make use of the agreements they have entered into with other players across the Paris region. 

    Uber Eats – Carrefour partnership to expand

    The partnership with Uber Eats is not limited to France. An initial agreement was signed with Carrefour Taiwan at the end of 2019 covering 8 major urban areas and 38 stores involved in preparing orders.

    Other Carrefour Group countries will follow over the next few months.

  • Carrefour to open its first hypermarket in Andorra in September

    Carrefour to open its first hypermarket in Andorra in September

    Carrefour will open its first 6000 sq m hypermarket in the Principality of Andorra on the site of the former Andorra 2000 store.

    This will follow the signing of a franchise contract with Carrefour Partenariat International, within the framework of a global agreement with the Pyrénées Group.

    The new store will also feature a “Bon Appétit” restaurant area.

    The Pyrénées Group will continue to grow over the next two years and is planning to open several stores in Andorra in partnership with the Carrefour Group.

  • Carrefour Polska has begun testing Tank&Go gas station

    Carrefour Polska has begun testing Tank&Go gas station

    Carrefour Polska has begun testing Tank&Go – the new service targeted at Carrefour gas station customers.

    The service enables to make a full contactless payment for fuel and is available in the „My Carrefour” mobile application. At the initial testing stage, selected clients of Carrefour gas stations in Warsaw and Krakow can use it.

    Carrefour Polska owns over 40 gas stations.

    How Tank&Go service works

    The service works as part of the “My Carrefour” mobile application. Its users will find in the application a new module – Tank & Go – prepared especially for the needs of the service.

    To use it, the customer should log in to the module, provide the necessary data of his car and activate Masterpass mobile payments. When on a Carrefour petrol station, the client simply selects the distributor, specifies the transaction amount, makes the payment and starts refueling.

    After its completion, the customer will receive an invoice to the e-mail address provided earlier and can leave the service station. The whole process takes place quickly and fully self-service.

  • Carrefour’s loyalty card available in Apple Wallet

    Carrefour’s loyalty card available in Apple Wallet

    Carrefour becomes the first retailer in Europe to combine its loyalty program with Apple Pay for use with Apple Wallet.

    Carrefour customers can add their customer loyalty card to their Apple Wallet and use it at store checkouts. This allows them to use their iPhone or Apple Watch as a contactless means to pay for their shopping and take advantage of all the benefits provided by their Carrefour loyalty program.

    They simply need to bring their iPhone or Apple Watch close to the payment terminal and the Carrefour customer loyalty card will automatically appear on the screen so they can collect points.

    There’s no need to scan a barcode, open an app or remember a secret code to use the Carrefour customer loyalty card.

    Customers can collect their points securely using Face ID, Touch ID or by entering their phone password.   

  • Carrefour launches a food marketplace in France

    Carrefour launches a food marketplace in France

    Available on the Carrefour.fr website, the marketplace will feature more than a hundred retailers and up to 100,000 products that will complement its daily product range by the end of 2020.

    With this online marketplace, Carrefour will give customers easy access to a complementary product offering while enabling vendor partners to display their catalogues on its site.

    The platform is developed in partnership with Mirakl, a French company that has established itself as a world leader in building online marketplaces.

    What kind of food is avaible on Carrefour.fr marketplace

    Carrefour.fr website is selling complementary products that are in line with the trends that its e-commerce customers appear to be following:

    • a preference for organic and natural products,
    • products that are good for people’s health,
    • gourmet foods,
    • regional / local products,
    • world products,
    • gluten- and salt-free products.

    The product categories concerned are grocery items, beverages (wine, beer, spirits and soft drinks), hygiene/beauty care products, pet supplies and childcare items.