| Carrefour Planet | |
| Type: | Hypermarket |
| Foundation: | 2010 |
| Location City: | Massy |
| Location Country: | France |
| Area Served: | Belgium, France, Greece, Spain |
| Parent: | Carrefour Group |
Carrefour Planet is a hypermarket chain concept owned by the Carrefour Group.Carrefour Planet was created as a new-generation hypermarket, the hypermarkets were divided into 8 centers ; marché (Market), bio, surgélés (frozen food), beauté (beauty), mode, bébé (baby), maison (home) and loisirs-multimédia (leisure-multimedia) and proposed services such as day care, a barbershop or hairdressing services.
In 2010, the first stores were tested in France in Écully, Vénissieux and Lattes, in Spain in El Pinar and in Belgium in Mont-Saint-Jean.
In 2011, in France, 6 regular Carrefour hypermarkets became Carrefour Planet in Essonne, La Ville-du-Bois, Les Ulis, Villabé Athis-Mons, Vitrolles and Wasquehal.
In July 2011, the first Carrefour Planet was opened in Paderno Dugnano, Italy of 13,000 square meters.[1]
In 2012, it was announced that the transformation from Carrefour to Carrefour Planet costs too much, as a result Carrefour stops further process of converting Carrefour hypermarkets, hypermarkets already converted to Planet stays as-is but loses the Planet sign in France.
As of August 2013, there are still 15 Carrefour Planet stores in Belgium,[2] 1 in Greece and 1 in Italy.