Carrefour City

Carrefour City

Type	Société par actions simplifiée
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Évry, France
Area served	France Spain
Services	Convenience store
Parent	Carrefour Group
Website	carrefour.fr

A Carrefour City store in Paris.

Carrefour City is a chain of proximity convenience stores created in 2009 by the Carrefour Group with locations in two countries, France and Spain.

Carrefour City stores are convenience stores in city centers, all of these stores are open six days a week.

History

In January 2009, the first City stores opened in Paris, Nîmes and Avignon.

At the end of 2009, the Carrefour group decided to transform about 50 Shopi (also owned by Carrefour) proximity supermarkets into Carrefour City, the Shopi chain could eventually be replaced completely.

In December 2010, Carrefour announced two new proximity store concepts in France, Carrefour Express and Carrefour City Café, the latter being a Carrefour City store with an in-house café.

Carrefour City have also expanded to Spain with currently 11 stores in Madrid only.

Carrefour City Café

Carrefour City Café was an experimental urban convenience store format that offers hot beverages and food items for consumption on the spot or take away. Over 700 takeaway items (snacks, sandwiches, cold drinks, bread and pastries, etc.) were to be available for city dwellers in the 100 to 150m² stores. The first Carrefour City Café opened in Bordeaux on December 16, 2010 before a second unit followed in early 2011. After nearly two years of market testing, the café format was abandoned.

See also

• Carrefour