In order to meet customers’ expectations and reinvent what it means to go shopping, Carrefour has developed Carrefour planet, a new hypermarket concept. With two pilot stores in Ecully and Venissieux, Carrefour planet will be opening its doors to its first customers on August 25th. Carrefour has totally reinvented shopping for its customers, and the Carrefour planet concept offers them a new shopping experience centred around making purchases in comfort, friendliness and fun. The new stores boast a festive atmosphere of discovery, specialist offers organised into key areas, lower prices, brand new services and new technologies: with Carrefour planet, customers who visit the new Ecully and Vénissieux hypermarkets can now enjoy a completely new shopping experience.

For its first quarter, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announces net earnings of $129.5 million, up $38.4 million or 42.2%. The increase mainly reflects the growing contribution of merchandise and service sales, the growth in same-store motor fuel volume in Canada and the United States, the 3.69¢ per gallon increase in motor fuel gross margin in the United States, the contribution from a growing number of sites offering fuel, the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, Couche-Tard’s sound management of its expenses as well as a lower income tax rate. These items contributing positively to net earnings were partially offset by an increase in electronic payment modes resulting from higher average motor fuel retail prices.

Style-conscious shoppers won't have to sacrifice value to stock their closets with this season's latest trends following today's announcement that Walmart Canada has expanded its exclusive George brand. The arrival of the newly consolidated George line means the whole family can take dependable style and on-trend fashion home without breaking the bank.

As part of the George brand's multi-million dollar expansion, the retailer has retired a number of Walmart Canada private label brands (i.e., B.U.M., Penman's and 725), to create one umbrella brand.