{"id":41559,"date":"2025-09-15T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/?p=41559"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:22:20","slug":"french-retail-giant-carrefour-leaves-bahrain-official-exit-on-september-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/french-retail-giant-carrefour-leaves-bahrain-official-exit-on-september-14\/","title":{"rendered":"French Retail Giant Carrefour Leaves Bahrain and Kuwait: All Stores Closed mid-September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Carrefour has officially closed its doors in Bahrain and Kuwait<\/strong>, bringing an end to decades of service in these countries. The French retail giant thanked customers for their loyalty and support over the years, celebrating the many memories made along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Carrefour has exited a Gulf market \u2013 earlier this year, it <strong>also stopped operations in Oman<\/strong>. However, in Oman, the closure paved the way for something new: Dubai\u2019s Majid Al Futtaim Group, which owned and managed Carrefour there, launched a new grocery brand called HyperMax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2453698935.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2453698935.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2453698935-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2453698935-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2453698935-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrefour continues to be a firm favourite in the UAE, with a strong presence across the Emirates. In 2024, the brand took a bold step into India through a franchise partnership with Dubai\u2019s Apparel Group, kicking off in North India with plans to grow across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Bahrain residents, while Carrefour may be a thing of the past, exciting new projects are on the horizon, including a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/new-passenger-sea-route-to-connect-bahrain-and-saudi-arabia\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"41109\">passenger sea route set to connect Bahrain and Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 making travel and trade a little bit easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrefour has officially closed its doors in Bahrain and Kuwait, bringing an end to decades of service in these countries. The French retail giant thanked customers for their loyalty and support over the years, celebrating the many memories made along the way. This isn\u2019t the first time Carrefour has exited a Gulf market \u2013 earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":41560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"tags":[{"id":15448,"slug":"news","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"}}],"countries":[{"id":15514,"slug":"bahrain","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/bahrain\/","api_id":21,"title":{"rendered":"Bahrain"}}],"cities":[{"id":17008,"slug":"manama","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/bahrain\/manama\/","api_id":282,"title":{"rendered":"Manama"}}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}