Carrefour Tenerife with insider experience and some facts.

Carrefour Tenerife main stores are only in 2 places in Tenerife. I have been to both.

There is no Carrefour by Alcampo at La Laguna contrary to what one hears in the Internet.

When talking to Carrefour I was assured that they only have 2 shops in Tenerife.

What wasn't said is, if there were any Carrefour convenience stores for fresh food. I will come back to this interesting topic below...

Carrefour Tenerife (big store)
38109 Añaza
Tel: + 34 922 685392
Spain

I saw Carrefour Tenerife at Christmas, once, when its
decoration was so beautiful.

Carrefour Tenerife Spain in Añaza has ample parking. It's best to go to the Añaza store with your own or rented car.

Once, a friend and I took a bus
back from Añaza Carrefour into
Santa Cruz which means it can be done, although, it was a hot day and, no shelter was at this Añaza bus stop.

The 2 story 'Megastore' Carrefour in Añaza is very big.
It's on the TF1 freeway at exit 5,9 km about 16 km from Santa Cruz capital to whose district it belongs to. More on Santa Cruz municipality in Tenerife city ...

Carrefour sells just about everything from motor oil to big furniture or televisions.

The Santa Cruz Carrefour branch:

Somebody said that Carrefour Tenerife is a lot like Asda. I have been to Asda in Bournemouth UK which was not like Carrefour, at all.

A few years ago, a friend recommended Carrefour at the Tenerife capital when I needed a couch and told me that I would be surprised how cheap this store is. I ,first, went to its smaller branch directly in Santa Cruz just a few 100 meters uphill from the central bus station on the same palm lined avenue Avenida Tres de Mayo where the new sky scraper Corte Inglás is.

How find Carrefour smaller branch by Corte Inglás?

What about my sofa?

By the way, after having combed through just about every furniture outlet from the capital right down to Icod de los Vinos (which is interesting in this respect also while comparing with Carrefour) not finding the right thing at Carrefour wasn't surprising.

Where did I find the sofa Carrefour didn't have?

Read all details about this versatile sleeper couch, all data of its shop and, why this peace of quality furniture was a best buy for me which stood the test of time...

Carrefour Tenerife in the capital is somehow similar to Alcampo at La Laguna or at La Orotava by the TF5 freeway. Only, it's bigger.

Carrefour convenience stores:

There was talk about Carrefour convenience stores for fresh produce in 2006. Please, mind that Carrefour has all sorts of outlets in other countries.

I haven't seen one of those Carrefour express stores for fresh produce in Tenerife, yet. When asking at their main office a comment in this regard was not given which must be respected.

Example of similar problem like Carrefour's experienced by other foreign stores in Tenerife:

As far as I know there are big problems for that service because of a local law that protects small shops where fruit and vegetable shops are part of.

The German chain Liedel which contrary to Carrefour sells food and drink only intended to come to Tenerife.
Last said in the media was that they would have to follow price laws if they were opening up. What's the point of a free market? I wonder...Sure, Tenerife is tiny and very fragile in commerce, too, and, nobody wants to see little shops disappear.

Therefor, it needs to be seen what the outcome regarding express convenience stores will be with Carrefour.

How can Carrefour fight the system if Mercadona supermarket couldn't when it started to build a store behind my building in Los Realejos?An interesting article on Carrefour business Spain where Tenerife is part of was published, some time back.

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Carrefour free wifi Internet connection:

By February 2011 Carrefour had the only Tenerife shopping malls with free wifi besides Centro Comercial Meridiano near the new Corte Inglés megastores of Santa Cruz. However, you catch Carrefour's free wifi by walking around the mall, as it is not within libraries, such as at the TEA museum of contemporary art.Mind with any free Wifi like this which may be shared with many users, Internet crashes, cut-outs and bad connections are the order of the day. Only go for it at Carrefour Tenerife, when you have time to take such chances and when your Internet chores are not important.

Carrefour Tenerife extraordinary opening hours:

Call Carrelfour at Tel:+ 0034 902 20 20 00 from 8:30 a.m. to 22:00 p.m. for its opening times such as Easter holidays which are in April in 2011.

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