Supermarket: Shopping Games

FAQs

• Is a supermarket a grocery store?
  A supermarket is a type of grocery store that is typically larger in scale and carries a wider selection of items. They are almost the same thing, but supermarkets are usually very large. ... Americans do most of our shopping in supermarkets, even though we typically call them grocery stores in everyday speech.
• What is a supermarket example?
  Supermarket, large retail store operated on a self-service basis, selling groceries, fresh produce, meat, bakery and dairy products, and sometimes an assortment of nonfood goods.
• How does a supermarket work?
  In carrying out its function, a supermarket business acquires and assembles a wide assortment of goods from individual suppliers, then organizes and distributes them as-needed to a chain of retail stores for sale to local customers.
• When did supermarkets become common?
  Between 1916, when a maverick entrepreneur in Tennessee opened what is generally thought to have been the first self-service grocery in the United States, and roughly 1960, by which time supermarkets were selling 70 percent of the nation's groceries, the evolution of the American supermarket irrevocably altered not ...
• What do you mean by a supermarket?
  Definition of supermarket 1 : a self-service retail market selling especially foods and household merchandise. 2 : something resembling a supermarket especially in the variety or volume of its goods or services.
• What is the difference between groceries and supermarket?
  Some say supermarkets are always chain stores while individuals own grocery stores, she adds. “I think it's interesting to note that while 'grocery store' is the more commonly used name for all of these stores in the U.S, 'supermarkets' is the prevailing term for such stores in the UK,” Coleman says.
• What is a synonym for supermarket?
  synonyms for supermarket. bazaar.boutique.co-op.discount store.flea market.mall.mart.outlet.
• Why is it called a supermarket?
  supermarket (n.) 1933, American English, from super- + market (n.). The 1933 reference is in an article that says the stores themselves began to open around 1931. An early word for a "superstore" was hypermarket (1967).