Carrefour launches its first Bio store in Dubai

Carrefour launches its first Bio store in Dubai

Carrefour, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in the UAE, has opened its first Bio store in City Centre Me’aisem in Dubai. It features the retailer’s first-ever café and an in-store hydroponic farm, with an underlying focus on sustainability. The store’s concept has been drawn up based on qualitative data studies around organic shopping in the UAE and on locally-sourced products, with over 3,000 items spanning from food and beverages to beauty, personal, and home care items. The store includes a selection of fruit and vegetables sourced from 100 per cent organic certified farms, poultry and meat with no added hormones, and organic-fed fish from approved piscaries,. It caters to diverse dietary requirements including a range of vegan, keto, free-from and dairy-free products. The brand’s first sit-down dining café offers all-day breakfast, salads, juices, organic teas and coffees, as well as options from manakeesh to burgers with a plant-based twist. Carrefour Bio offers recyclable paper bags and uses biodegradable packaging across its fresh products in line with its aim to eliminate single-use plastic from its operations by 2025. Customers will also find refilling stations for water and detergents to prevent excessive plastic consumption. The store’s hydroponic farm will also