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27 October 2023
Carrefour reports a strong performance in some challenging environments. Furthermore, Carrefour Poland demonstrates how affective its commitments to reducing food waste have proven to be. Carrefour’s Q3 performance The retailer confirms its sales in Q3 2023 reached €23,629m an increase of 6.9%, with like-for-like (LFL) sales growing by 9%, compared to Q3 2022. Source: Carrefour ...
27 October 2023
Casino Group’s France Retail net sales were down -6.5% year-on-year (YoY), and -5.6% in like-for-like sales (LFL), resulting in €3.4bn in Q3 2023. Similar to the first half of the year, the only small positive was its Parisian and convenience banners, while Supermarkets, Hypermarkets and Cdiscount experienced a continued decline in net sales.  Supermarkets are slowly recovering while Hypermark...
20 October 2023
I assess the news from across the discounter’s European markets. Slowing down of network growth continues France has become the latest market where Lidl has announced plans to reduce the number of store openings, with only 10 new stores this year. The discounter had been opening between 20 and 30 stores per year and was gaining momentum in the challenging market, but in recent months it has...
02 October 2023
In France, we’ve seen several tactics to address multiple rising issues of theft and shrinkflation in the market. Explore how Leclerc is trialling anti-theft technology while Carrefour targets suppliers with its price warning labels. Leclerc trials anti-theft technology French market leader Leclerc partners with Knap to test 40 connected shopping trolleys in its hypermarket based in La Coll...
29 September 2023
The Dutch market leader announces it is joining the Eurelec alliance from 2025. Price differences to be addressed Ahold Delhaize will join France’s E.Leclerc and Germany’s REWE as part of the Eurelec retail alliance. The alliance will act as a joint sourcing venture between the three retailers for the purchasing of international FMCG’s. Through joining the alliance Ahold Delhaize hopes t...
05 September 2023
Carrefour revealed it appointed a new executive director in France. Meanwhile, the retailer is enhancing the shopping experience in Argentina and Brazil, featuring a new autonomous store and its new Super Nova generation 2 store concept. Separately, in Poland, Carrefour continues to focus on support shoppers purchasing power, by offering a new discount scheme throughout September. Carrefour ap...
27 July 2023
Net sales for Casino Group were down -6.6% year-on-year (YoY), and -1.2% in like-for-like sales (LFL) resulting in €5.5bn in Q2 2023. Similarly to Q1, the only positives were its Parisian and convenience banners, and operations in Latin America due to successes of GPA and Grupo Éxito. Small steps in the right direction for Casino supermarkets in France Overall net sales in France retail fel...
27 July 2023
Carrefour revealed a strong group performance, net sales in H1 2023 reached €40.7 bn an increase of 12.4%, with like-for-like (LFL) sales growing by 11.2%, compared to H1 2022. Carrefour continues to progress with its 2026 strategy plan, against a backdrop of record food inflation in Europe. Key highlights for the group include the sale of private label products continued to grow, which increa...
19 July 2023
Reports from France suggest the discounter is interested in acquiring up to 600 stores from Casino Group. How discounters can rule the world At the beginning of July 2023, we launched our latest discount report, How discounters can rule the world . In the report, IGD’s discount working group presents its opinions on what food discounters need to do in the long term to sustain sales growt...
18 July 2023
In its Q1 2023 press release, Casino highlighted that environmental commitments have been made central to its strategy in order to address climate change. Following on from this, the group is installing EV charging stations across eligible stores in France, while a pilot is being tested in Brazil for the collection of recyclable materials. Installation of EV charging stations across all eligib...