Hypermarkets, hailed as game changers in China’s retail industry as recently as two decades ago, have been pushed aside by the popularity of smartphone-enabled payments and online shopping.
Carrefour, the French retailer announced on Sunday, is selling an 80 per cent stake in its China operations to Suning, ceding control in a market that it had first entered in 1995.
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