Food retail: total square footage of stores by type France 2018

This bar chart presents the total square footage of sales points of food retailers in France as of October 2018, distributed by type of store. It appears that hypermarkets occupied in total 11 million square meters, while organic stores had a total surface area of about 545 thousand square meters.

Total square footage of food retail stores in France in 2018, by type of store (in square meters)

Characteristic	Total square footage in square meters
Hypermarkets	11,677,326
Supermarkets	7,225,246
Hard-discount	2,969,558
Convenience stores*	1,235,514
Drive-In (separated from store)	837,508
Cash and carry	829,917
Junior department stores**	613,615
Organic stores	545,056
Frozen products stores	301,647
Cellarman	142,124

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Release date

January 2019

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Region

France

Survey time period

October 2018

Special properties

Metropolitan France

Supplementary notes

* The source adds the following information concerning convenience stores: "supérettes de moins de 400 m²"

** French: "Magasins populaires": usually located in city centers and offering both food and non-food products on a mid-sized surface, as for instance the retail company Monoprix.

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