2025 France POS Terminal Market – Size & Share Analysis
France’s POS Terminal Market
A Mature Market with a Blend of Modern and Traditional Retail
The France POS Terminal Market is mature, with a dynamic mixture of modern chains and traditional independent merchants. The core retailers in the market are also global leaders. Thus, POS systems used in-country are often the chosen version used in other countries in order to maintain support.
Market Trends
- The retail landscape is mature, with a dynamic mixture of modern chains and traditional independent merchants.
- Over the past decade, retail sales have grown 19% for France, compared to 40% for UK and 26% for Germany.
- Top 4 retailers have approximately 70% of the food market, and these are mainly hypermarkets and discounters.
- French retailers with extensive international networks include Carrefour (54% of their revenues come from outside France, and they have 9,000+ stores outside France), Auchan (12 countries), and Casino (healthy presence in LATAM and Africa).
- Cards account for 80% of in-store transactions and leads cash by volume 37.4% to 36.6%.
Leading Retailers
Carrefour (#13 worldwide), LVMH (#21), Leclerc (#22), Intermarche (#27), Casino (#32), Auchan (#33), Groupe Adeo (#39), Système U (#43), Kering SA (#70), Dècathlon (#76).
Market Size & Growth Projections
€770M
2024 Market Size
€860M
Expected 2029 Market Size
11.7%
Total Growth
2.2%
CAGR
Key Vendors
Key POS Hardware Vendors
Hewlett Packard
Diebold Nixdorf
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions
NCR Voyix
Ingenico Group
Key POS Software Vendors
Cegid
Oracle
Toshiba
Diebold Nixdorf
NCR Voyix
IHL Studies for France POS Terminal Market
2025 EMEA POS Terminal Market Study
- This study includes market sizing, POS shipments, POS installed base and trends for the key EMEA countries (Germany, France, UK, etc) and the region as a whole.
2024 EMEA POS / mPOS Software Market Share
- Includes POS market share by software vendor by segment
2024 EMEA POS Terminal Hardware Market Share by Vendor
- Provides POS shipments and POS installed base by quarter for each retail segment for the EMEA region.
2025 EMEA Retail Stores/POS Sizing by Retail Chain Size
- Included in this study are Market Sizing by store locations and chain size for Europe/Middle East/Africa