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Which French multinational retailer opened France's first hypermarket in 1963?

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Carrefour

Carrefour pioneered the "hypermarket" concept by combining a supermarket and a department store under one roof in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. The company's name means "crossroads" in French, which refers to the location of their very first store at a major intersection.

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