The Carrefour 2021 Thread

tempogain · August 18, 2021, 11:24am

Yeah across the stream from Cheng Hsin Hospital. Not much to get excited over.

tango42 · August 18, 2021, 11:29am

I thought that area was famous for the two cat cafes.

DKaoshuing · August 18, 2021, 1:20pm

I wonder if the big French hypermarket Au-Chan will buy it to add to their Taiwan markets? I sometimes go to the location of the hypermarket in Kaoshuing-Fengshan to buy their AuChan label items, but no central city locations. If they bought Carrefour they would be much bigger.

Icon · August 18, 2021, 1:21pm

Takeshi Kaneshiro used to live there!!!

In other news, what are the chances of CitySuper expanding here? I know I am dreaming but boy, that’ll be nice. Maybe the prices would be lower.

Or a nice Japanese chain with lots of Japanese products.

SuperS54 · August 18, 2021, 1:38pm

Aren’t they in a joint venture with RT-Mart?

Seems to be only one RT-Mart in Kaohsiung, quite a few in the BeiBeiShi so I guess Carrefour might be a good buy if they are more plentiful in the south.

DKaoshuing · August 18, 2021, 2:06pm

Yes, they work with RT mart. I prefer Carrefour but if someone bought it I guess Auchan+RT Mart would be ok

olm · August 18, 2021, 4:59pm

Aaand the new Carrefour in Nangang seems open:

Apart from that, there was some rumors that Carrefour would soon completely leave the Taiwan market. Was this discussed already in this thread?

tempogain · August 18, 2021, 5:04pm

Yes, why, did you hear anything?

olm · August 18, 2021, 5:51pm

Ah, gotta scroll back even further - seems old news. Sorry, nothing new that I heard, just didn’t find it when scrolling back - I only made it to the store music discussion ^^

nz · August 18, 2021, 10:35pm

Wasn’t Matsusei (sp??) a Japanese chain? It seemed to be mostly Japanese + Western imports. And it was everywhere. Then they all became PxMarts

afterspivak · August 18, 2021, 11:22pm

Good fruit, too.

In hindsight, I miss those guys.

Guy

Belgian_Pie · August 19, 2021, 4:14am

They (Auchan) were here as Géant, than got in with RT. (correction: Geant is actually owned by Casino Group)

bdog · August 19, 2021, 5:06am

The Carrefour near me is shit. They need a PX mart type song.

SuperS54 · August 19, 2021, 6:04am

Géant is A-Mart

Marco · August 19, 2021, 6:59am

Like Dinghao’s rock song?

Belgian_Pie · August 19, 2021, 7:22am

Interesting story from 2004 about ‘hyper’ and other markets Far Eastern Geant chief puts a stop to merger talk - Taipei Times

Belgian_Pie · August 19, 2021, 7:34am

Geant = Casino (my bad)
Auchan = RT-Mart

DKaoshuing · August 20, 2021, 3:51am

I think AuChan is different than Géant, the only common things is they are Hypermarkets and French. Auchan seems from locations in France much bigger.

bdog · August 20, 2021, 3:59am

Charles Kruse is actually quite direct for a CEO. I particularly enjoyed how he tactlessly implied logistics are hopeless in Asia. Certainly hasn’t improved much since 2004, how many times do you go to the supermarket here and something disappears for months!

afterspivak · August 20, 2021, 4:08am

It’s a good interview, helped by an attentive journalist. I wish the Taipei Times did more of this kind of journalism as they used to do in the 2000s.

Guy