Parro Supermercados

Parro Supermercados is an Abejan chain of supermarkets and convenience stores. It was founded in 1979 by Pedro Parro, who opened his first Parro-branded convenience store in a Texaco gas station located in central Abejópolis. In 1981, Parro became a franchise and more than 80 Parro-branded convenience stores opened across the city. One year later, Parro purchased all 187 remaining 7 Eleven locations in Abeja after the American convenience store chain left the country. A year later, Chevron had sold its Texaco Food Mart business in Abeja to Parro, creating a new conglomerate called Parro Food-Mart. Parro would continue to pay royalties to Chevron in order to use the Texaco Food-Mart brand. In 1985, Parro stopped using the Texaco Food-Mart brand in Abeja because royalties were too expensive. All locations were converted to Parro convenience stores by 1986. In 1990, Pedro Parro purchased 56 locations from Wal-Mart that Aldi Süd couldn't purchase, and he created a new supermarket brand called Parro Supermercados. He then proceeded to purchase Auchan's Abejan business and had doubled their locations by 100. In 1987, Pedro Parro sold Parro Supermercados y Conveniencias S.A. to Groupe Carrefour for 6 million dollars, and since the Parro name was more recognizable, all Carrefour hypermarkets were converted to Hiper Parro. The Atacadao brand was converted to Parro Atacadao, and Carrefour started operating under the Parro banner in Abeja by 1992.