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Carrefour comes to Romania stocking high tech security
When Carrefour, one of the largest food retailers in the world, expanded its presence
of hypermarkets across three continents, they hired security system integrator UTI
to establish loss prevention systems within their unique shopping environment. The
security company met the challenge, providing one of the most secure hypermarkets,
equipped with state-of-the-art video surveillance equipment from American Dynamics.
Created in 1959, Carrefour has grown from a single supermarket in France's Haute-Savoie
region to more than 11,080 stores in 29 countries. Operations range from supermarkets
to convenience stores and a variety of other outlets. But what Carrefour is known
for above all else is the hypermarket.
A hypermarket is, essentially, a super-sized supermarket that typically stocks some
70,000 items and has a sales floor as big as 20,000 square meters or approximately
215,000 square feet. Carrefour introduced the concept to Europe in 1963, opening
its first one in the south of Paris. The trend caught on and Carrefour hypermarkets
sprang up across the continent. As they increasingly became part of daily life for
many western Europeans, more stores opened in Latin America, Asia, and the South
Pacific.
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