It was established by Alcides Parizotto and then became property of the Lima family and the executives Farid Curi and Herberto Uli Schmeil.

Atacadão was founded in 1962, in the city of Maringá in Paraná, by Alcides Parizotto,[3] who was in charge of the network until 1991, the year he left the organization,[4] and in which the company was later acquired by the Lima family and executives Farid Curi and Herberto Uli Schmeil, when it was purchased in 2007 by Carrefour Group for R$2.2 billion reais.

[6] In January 2023, Carrefour announced that it would relocate one of its stores in the commune of Sevran, France, as part of its strategy to target low-income populations.

[7] But the mayor of the city of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Bruno Beschizza, embraced the idea, although the population of the commune also launched a petition.

[8] On 20 June 2024 a first store opened in France, at the O'Parinor shopping center in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, which is seen as a response to the impact of inflation on the purchasing power of the French population.