Editing Carrefour (section)

===Boycott of supplies in China===
[[File:Photo0196.jpg|thumb|A Carrefour outlet in Beijing, China, promotes the use of canvas bags as opposed to [[plastic bags]] prior to the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].]]
In April 2008, after the [[2008 Summer Olympics torch relay|2008 Olympic torch relay]] was disrupted by [[Tibetan independence movement]] advocates in London and especially in Paris, where some protesters attempted to wrest control of the torch from the torch bearers, Chinese activists promoted boycotting Carrefour because of unsubstantiated rumours that the company gave funds to Tibetan independence groups and the [[Dalai Lama]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 April 2008 |title=Carrefour faces China boycott bid |work=[[BBC]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7347918.stm |url-status=live |access-date=19 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419135935/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7347918.stm |archive-date=19 April 2012}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Andrew |date=2008-05-02 |title=Anti-French Boycott Falters in China |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/world/asia/02china.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165925/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/world/asia/02china.html |archive-date=2022-04-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In its response, Carrefour China stated that it did support the [[2008 Summer Olympics|Beijing Olympics]]; and that it would never do anything to harm the feelings of the [[Chinese people]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carrefour.com.cn/note/note.html |title=家乐福中国对近日出现的一些不实传闻的声明 |publisher=Carrefour.com.cn |access-date=19 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707014338/http://www.carrefour.com.cn/note/note.html |archive-date=7 July 2011  }}</ref> Protests and calls for the boycott later subsided, partly because of efforts by French officials to apologize for the Paris torch attack.<ref name=":8" />