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Marché Plus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ3289803 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marché Plus is a former French superette supermarket chain as of May 11, 2015. It franchised its name to small-format grocery stores in France. It was a part of the Carrefour Group. The head office was in Levallois-Perret. A major rebranding of the corporate groups convenience operations began in 2009. They were consolidated under the Carrefour name and Proxi, finishing by January 2022. Most Marché Plus were renamed Carrefour City by 2015.

References

External links

Marché Plus (in French) 2010 archive

Galinier, Pascal. Carrefour, inventeur de l'hypermarché, se convertit au supermarché. Le Monde.

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The public source identifies “Marché Plus” as organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marché, Plus and organization.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2009, 2022, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marché, Plus and organization providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Marché Plus”, the useful work is to connect “organization” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3289803. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2009, 2022 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marché Plus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.