Right from the start of this crisis that has hit France and the rest of the world, the Carrefour group's teams have been focused on providing an essential service and enabling people to shop and feed themselves with as much peace of mind as possible.

While continuing to operate, the Carrefour group is doing everything possible to protect the health and safety of both its employees and its customers:

Wide-ranging individual and collective protection measures have been implemented from the very first day across all of the group's sites (barrier protection measures, distribution of hand sanitiser gel and gloves, installation of Plexiglas barriers, provision of protective visors, etc.).

Following ongoing dialogue with social partners, hypermarket and supermarket opening times have been shortened so as to relieve the teams who have been on the front lines right from the start of the pandemic. Going forward and until further notice, Carrefour hypermarket and Carrefour Market stores will close no later than 7 PM, and as was the case on Sunday 29 March, they will be closed (exceptionally) on Sunday 5 April.

The Group is continuing to bolster the measures in place to protect its teams. As soon the French government ceased its requisition measures, Carrefour ordered massive quantities of masks for all of its employees. 2 million masks arrived on French territory on Sunday evening and are in the process of being sent out to all Carrefour warehouses and stores. These deliveries will continue over the coming weeks.

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