The company was founded in 1932 in Rouen by Max Heilbronn, a son-in-law of Theophile Bader, the founder of Galeries Lafayette.

[4] The Autorité de la concurrence, France's competition regulatory body, approved the transaction in 2013, with the condition that the merged group sell 58 stores.

This restructuring procedure would allow for the company to cut high debt and improve recent losses to other rival supermarket corporations.

[15] Intentions to expand to Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavia and Spain were announced in late 2020.

[19] In 1966, in the song "Les Élucubrations d'Antoine", the singer Antoine sings the lyrics "Put the pill on sale in the Monoprix.

[21] In the Sparks song "You Were Meant For Me" from 2023, the narrator becomes attracted to a fellow shopper: "At the Monoprix, you stood out so to me".

In Michel Houellebecq's book "The Elementary Particles", the line "He ate a Monoprix TV dinner--monkfish in parsley sauce" appears.