Carrefour changes format for new store behind Unirea

Carrefour will open the store taken over from Univers’All, located near the Unirea Shopping Center in Bucharest by the middle of the year. The French investor will invest at least two million euros in rearranging the space formerly held by the former Univers’All store in the Unirea Shopping Center, stated Jacobo Caller Celestino, chief executive of the Carrefour Romania hypermarket network. According to the Carrefour representative, the store in Piata Unirii is rented by the company and will be opened within the next four or five months. “The store will be a small hypermarket, where the food retail area will be a replica of our other stores, whilst the non-food area will be smaller in size. It will share the car parking facilities with Unirea Shopping Center, but we will have a lot of customers arriving by public transportation and also on foot, so I don’t think this will be a big problem,” stated Jacobo Caller Celestino. The store in Unirea Square is a two-storey building and has a total surface area of 3,600 square metres.