Carrefour and Vusion to deploy smart stores at scale

Carrefour has signed a long-term deal with French retail tech firm Vusion to roll out "smart store" systems across all its hypermarkets and supermarkets in France by 2030. The agreement, part of Carrefour’s "Carrefour 2030" strategy, will put millions of cloud-connected electronic shelf labels, Bluetooth-enabled smart rails, and AI-powered cameras into its stores. These tools will handle real-time price changes, guide staff with light signals for picking and restocking, and use shelf-mounted micro-cameras to spot empty shelves, price errors, and layout issues.

Carrefour says the technology should cut low-value manual work, improve product availability, speed up e-commerce order preparation, and open new revenue from retail media and in-store data. The partnership follows Vusion’s large deployment with Walmart in the US and makes Carrefour an early large-scale European adopter of the platform. Both companies will also work together on future tools through an innovation board and a joint "Next Retail Experience Center" focused on AI-driven operations, in-store personalization, and new ways to use consumer data.