“In 2020 we opened 24 stores (15 convenience stores, three hypermarkets and six Supeco) so we preserved the growth rate of the physical store formats and boosted Carrefour’s presence through Bringo in 12 new cities this year. We are now offering delivery through Bringo in 36 cities at the end of 2020,” the company officials say.
Although the retailer continued to expand, the growth rate is almost half of what it was in 2019. It opened 42 stores last year, 29 of which supermarkets, 11 Supeco discount stores and two hypermarkets.
However, even though the retailer does not say how many stores it closed if any, at the end of 2019 it had 375 stores and now there are fewer despite all the new stores. Therefore, it closed more than 30 stores in 2020, according to ZF’s calculations.
Carrefour has hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience and discount brick and mortar stores. As a group, it posted more than 11.5 billion lei sales in 2019.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)