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Tehran hypermarket opens without Carrefour name
Change highlights difficulties amid tense ties with West


Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Tehran's shoppers are packing the wide, well-lit aisles of the Iranian capital's first Western-style hypermarket, more than two years after France's Carrefour SA unveiled plans for a mammoth retail emporium here. But the store, whose logo, broad selection and two-storey parking garage would be familiar to Carrefour shoppers anywhere, opened last month under a different name.


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