 Continente used to have one branch in Dubai, which was later purchased by Carrefour.The Continente ensign disappeared from Spain after the 1999 Carrefour-Promodès merge.The supermarket chain operates three main store formats; regular Continente stores, Continente Bom Dia (convenience stores and smaller supermarkets in urban locations, designed for more frequent purchases of everyday life, ) and Continente Modelo stores (hypermarkets of proximity, with an area of about ).