Auchan or Carrefour?

[Ridgeway]

Unless you’re shopping at them weekly then you wont be able to say really, even then there’s regional differences in terms of brands and pricing. We just go for what ever is in front of us which equally can be Lidl or Aldi.

If you want French shopping then avoid the supermarkets and where possible try markets.

 

[Reallyretired]

The markets in France used to be inexpensive and good quality. These days most we have been to have been overpriced and no better than supermarket stuff. Been to some good ones in Spain though.

 

[gus-lopez]

I hope the Carrefours in France are better & more honest than those in spain. You need a degree in mathematics to work out the special offers or the 3 for 2 offers.
The favourite is to increase the individual price from what it was ,so that when you buy 3 & pay for 2 you are lucky if you are actually saving anything. The item you wish to buy you have to ensure you check the barcode against the price on barcode sticker . quite normal for stuff to be priced with no corresponding label anywhere near.
Another favourite is the "all 1€" frozen clearout freezer. Apart from they "forget" to alter the price so if you are not wise to their scamming & ensure you check at the till you will be striped up.
It is the only store where you need 2 people to shop as one packs whilst the other does nothing but check the price comes up correctly.God forsaken hole.but the wife likes it??

 

[Minxy]

The markets in France used to be inexpensive and good quality. These days most we have been to have been overpriced and no better than supermarket stuff. Been to some good ones in Spain though.

Yup, the ones in Spain are great aren't they!

 

[Mr porky]

A lot more Spanish carrefour have height barriers than the last time I was in Spain. Didn't really see that in France.

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[Ian Bosman]

No problem - both are good!

As i was told by a supermarket imager log ago

Unless you’re shopping at them weekly then you wont be able to say really, even then there’s regional differences in terms of brands and pricing. We just go for what ever is in front of us which equally can be Lidl or Aldi.

If you want French shopping then avoid the supermarkets and where possible try markets.

As i was told by a supermarket long ago there is no overall difference in the shopping bills from any of them if you were to compare exact like for like, ignoring the claims of all of them when they claim to show the differences.DIf you look carefully at all their claims there are differences designed to fool into accepting what they say. So just make your own comparisons to suit whatever you buy. When we are inf France we go for the nearest unless there is something specific which we have seen we need to buy.