Supermercado De Candido is a chain of supermarkets, located in the Paraguaná Peninsula of Venezuela.
[2] During the company's first few years, growth was slow, but when petroleum companies Royal Dutch/Shell and Creole Petroleum Corporation merged the Paraguaná Peninsula experienced significant economic and population growth, inspiring La Franco Italiana to expand.
Many people in the Paraguaná Peninsula still refer to the company as La Franco.
The supermarket got sold due to economic and security problems.
It got sold to the company "De Candido" which has several supermarkets in the country.