Crossword clues for hypermarket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a combination of department store and supermarket
WordNet
n. a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town)
Wikipedia
In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full groceries lines and general merchandise. In theory, hypermarkets allow customers to satisfy all their routine shopping needs in one trip. The term hypermarket was coined in 1968 by French trade expert Jacques Pictet.
Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores, typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low- margin sales. Typically covering an area of , they generally have more than 200,000 different brands of merchandise available at any one time. Because of their large footprints, many hypermarkets choose suburban or out-of-town locations that are easily accessible by automobile.
Usage examples of "hypermarket".
In the taxi back from the hypermarket, she had studied the map she had bought, quickly finding the village where Claudia said Katriona had been brought up.
I was stood in an alarm-hooting hypermarket car park like a failed angel, wearing a simplistic memory approximation of my clothes.
A Seal CD was playing in the car, as he turned off the roundabout at the foot of the Milton Link, and headed past the hypermarket, out towards East Lothian.
She catalogued her town: a library, four pharmacies, three banks, a gymnasium for power-lifting and another that metamorphosed into a billiard hall, a market twice a week, a hypermarket that had opened with feathery widgeon stuffed in the freezer and now sold frozen pizza, a cordon of new pink apartment buildings and cinema on Fridays.
She tried to imagine what it would be like when getting water for the house, going to the hypermarket, all these jobs were no longer services or duties or favours done for others, just her own necessities.
In some countries, shopping centers are anchored by supermarkets and hypermarkets, like the first generation of American shopping centers.
Several European countries have passed laws to restrict the growth of hypermarkets and shopping centers.
To the eye they were three fortysomething slightly-but-not-too-tarty women, the kind you see pushing shopping trolleys around palazzo-style hypermarkets, or in hatchbacks arriving at yoga classes in the local leisure center rather than the kind that congregate at the farthest table in bars to drink vodka and laugh boorishly.
Then she had returned to England to save her native environment from motorways, hypermarkets, forest plantations with non-native species of trees and pollution in all its forms.
Kizuldah heard advertisements for hypermarkets, toilet paper, and clubs that could play Airfiles on giant TV screens.
American housewives used the food department of these hypermarkets to buy all that was necessary for their families for a week, since most of it would keep fresh in fridges or freezers.
There were a couple of bullet holes in the tailgate of his Subaru from where Sam had tried to sneak across the border on a rural back road he'd heard that things were even cheaper in the ex-east than in the hypermarkets of France.
A satellite town like Redditch, growing as Birmingham grew, didn’t need theatres, it needed offices, hypermarkets, warehouses: it needed, to quote the councillors, growth through investment in new industry.