This is the second large format store Carrefour will have opened in 2019 after the one in Zalau.
The company has opened two to three hypermarkets in Romania in each of the last few years. Carrefour was the hypermarket trailblazer in Romania, with its arrival in 2001 when it inaugurated the store in Militari district of Bucharest. Others networks such as Cora, Auchan and Kaufland followed.
The new hypermarket will be located in the DN1 Value Center in Balotesti, near Bucharest. The new center has a lettable area of 46,400 square meters and a catchment area of 137,000 people. DN1 Value Center is 10 kilometers away from the Baneasa Shopping City, which has a Carrefour hypermarket as an anchor. That particular store is Carrefour’s top performer in Romania with more than EUR100 million sales a year.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)