Carrefour Planet

French hypermarket chain owned by Carrefour Group

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

Carrefour Planet is 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.

References

^ "Carrefour ouvre un Planet en Italie". Site des marques. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
^ "Nos magasins | Carrefour, market, express". Archived from the original on 2013-08-03. Retrieved 2013-08-03.