French POS Terminal Market – 2024

By Lee Holman Feb 8, 2024 3 Min Read

The French 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.

Total Retail Sales: €530 Billion ($573 Billion), up 2.5% from 2022

French POS Terminal Market – Country Overview

2^nd Largest EMEA economy €2.9 Trillion ($3.1 Trillion)
2^nd Largest retail market in the region
Largest POS Installed Base in Europe/Middle East Africa
€7,729 ($8,363 USD) per capita retail sales

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)

Key French POS Terminal Market Trends

France continues to be the world’s 9th largest industrialized economy.
Over the past decade, retail sales have grown 19% for France, compared to 35% for UK and 25% 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 (56% of their revenues come from outside France, and they have 6,100+ stores in outside France in Europe and over 1,500 in LATAM), Auchan (12 countries), and Casino (healthy presence in LATAM and Africa).

Key French POS Terminal Market Size

2023 market was €739 Million and is expected to grow to €934 Million (26.4%, 4.8% CAGR ) by 2028.

Key POS Hardware Vendors/Key POS Software Vendors

Among the key POS hardware vendors in the French POS market are Diebold Nixdorf, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, NCR Voyix, and HP.
Key POS software vendors in the French POS market include Toshiba, Diebold Nixdorf, NCR Voyix, Flood and Oracle.

IHL Studies for French POS Terminal Market

2024 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.

Includes POS market share by software vendor by segment

Provides POS shipments and POS installed base by quarter for each retail segment for the EMEA region.

2024 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