Carrefour

Carrefour Group, S.A. (French: Groupe Carrefour, [kaʁfuʁ] ⓘ), is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. It operates a chain of hypermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores, which, as of December 2021[update], comprised 13,894 stores in over 30 countries, making it the seventh-largest retailer in the world by revenue.[4] The first Carrefour shop (not a hypermarket) opened in 1960, within suburban Annecy, near a crossroads (hence the name ― carrefour means crossroads in French). The group was created in 1958 by Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey,[5] who attended and were influenced by several seminars in the United States led by "the Pope of retail", Bernardo Trujillo.