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Hypermarket

March 15, 2023

A hypermarket (sometimes called a hyperstore, supercentre or superstore) is a big-box store combining a supermarket and a department store.[1] The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full grocery lines and general merchandise. In theory, hypermarkets allow customers to satisfy all their routine shopping needs in one trip. The term hypermarket (French: hypermarché) was coined in 1968 by French trade expert Jacques Pictet.[2]

European hypermarket in Finland, a branch of K-Citymarket in Viiri Shopping Centre in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi, Greater Helsinki
Asian hypermarket in the Philippines, a branch of SM Hypermarket in SM Mall of Asia in Pasay, Metro Manila

Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores, typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low-margin sales. Typically covering an area of 5,000 to 15,000 square metres (54,000 to 161,000 sq ft), 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.

History

Canada

Loblaws established its Real Canadian Superstore chain in 1979. It sells mainly groceries, while also retailing clothing, electronics and housewares. Its largest competitor in Canada is Walmart. These are the two major Canadian hypermarkets.

Europe

 
Produce section in Saveco, Kuwait

The first European hypermarket is commonly mistaken to be the Carrefour store that opened in 1963, at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France,[3] The co-founders were influenced by the teachings of Colombian-born American marketing executive Bernardo Trujillo, who taught executive education as part of the NCR Corporation's marketing campaign.[4] However, the Belgian retailer Grand Bazar preceded Carrefour by two years when it opened three hypermarkets in a short span in 1961 under the name SuperBazar after Belgian law restricting the size of department stores was abolished in January 1961. The first SuperBazar, opened in Bruges on 9 September 1961, initially designed to become a non-food department store, however only covered a surface area of 3,300 square metres (36,000 sq ft), and was later converted into a regular supermarket. The substantially larger store that opened a week later in Auderghem, Brussels, covering 9,100 m2 (98,000 sq ft), is regarded as a more proper hypermarket that brought the concept to fruition. [5] It was Belgian market development engineer Maurice Cauwe [fr], who adopted the concept from his frequent trips to the United States, particularly inspired from the Grand Union's "Grand Way" center in Paramus, New Jersey.[6]

In France, hypermarkets are generally situated in shopping centers (French: centre commercial or centre d'achats) outside cities, though some are present in the city center. They are surrounded by extensive car parking facilities, and generally by other specialized superstores that sell clothing, sports gear, automotive items, etc.

After the successes of super- and hyper-markets and amid fears that smaller stores would be forced out of business, France enacted laws that made it more difficult to build hypermarkets and also restricted the amount of economic leverage that hypermarket chains can impose upon their suppliers (the Loi Galland).

Japan

The predecessor to Ito Yokado was founded in 1920 selling western goods, went public in 1957, and switched to that name in 1965. Seibu Department Stores was founded in 1956, and opened up its grocery chain Seiyu Group in 1963. Isao Nakauchi founded the first Daiei in Kobe in 1957, selling clothing, electronics, furniture and groceries all in one store. Jusco was created in 1970, and eventually became known as ÆON.

In Japanese, hypermarkets are known as 総合スーパー (Sougou Suupaa, General Merchandise Stores). There is a distinction in Japanese between スーパー (Supers) and デパート (Departs) with the former being discounters, but the latter selling luxury brand clothing and quite often high-end groceries as well.

Hypermarkets may be found in urban areas as well as less populated areas. The Japanese government encourages hypermarket installations, as mutual investment by financial stocks are a common way to run hypermarkets. Japanese hypermarkets may contain restaurants, manga (Japanese comic) stands, Internet cafes, typical department store merchandise, a full range of groceries, beauty salons and other services all in the same store. A recent[when?] trend has been to combine the dollar store concept with the hypermarket blueprint, giving rise to the "hyakkin plaza"—hyakkin (百均) or hyaku en (百円) means 100 yen (roughly 1 US dollar).

United States

 
Packaged food aisles at a Fred Meyer hypermarket in Portland, Oregon

Until the 1980s, large stores combining food and non-food items were unusual in the United States, although early predecessors existed since the first half of the 20th century.[7]

The Pacific Northwest chain Fred Meyer, now a division of the Kroger supermarket company, opened the first suburban one-stop shopping center in 1931 in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon. The store's innovations included a grocery store alongside a drugstore plus off-street parking and an automobile lubrication and oil service. In 1933, men's and women's wear was added, and automotive department, housewares, and other nonfood products followed in succeeding years. In the mid 1930s, Fred Meyer opened a central bakery, a candy kitchen, an ice cream plant, and a photo-finishing plant, which supplied the company's stores in Portland and neighbouring cities with house brands such as Vita Bee bread, Hocus Pocus desserts, and Fifth Avenue candies. By the 1950s, Fred Meyer began opening stores that were 4,200 to 6,500 m2 (45,000 to 70,000 sq ft), and the 1960s saw the first modern-sized Fred Meyer hypermarkets.[8]

The Midwest (then grocery) chain Meijer, which today operates about 235 stores in six US states, coined the term "super center",[9] and opened the first of its hypermarket format store in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in June 1962, under the brand name "Thrifty Acres".[10][11]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the three major US discount store chains – Walmart, Kmart and Target – started developing similar format chains. Wal-Mart (as it was known before its late-2000s rebranding as Walmart) introduced Hypermart USA in 1987, followed by Wal-Mart Supercenter and Auchan in 1988;[12] Kmart opened its first Super Kmart (originally called Kmart Super Center) in 1991;[13] and Target came with the first Target Greatland stores in 1990, followed by the larger SuperTarget stores in 1995.[14] Most Greatland stores have since been converted to SuperTarget stores, while some have been converted into regular Target stores with the exception of 2 entrances (one example of this is the Antioch, California location).

In the early 1990s, US hypermarkets also began selling fuel. The idea was first introduced in the 1960s, when a number of supermarket chains and retailers like Sears tried to sell fuel, but it didn't generate sufficient consumer interest at the time. Today there are approximately 4,500 hypermarket stores in the US selling fuel, representing an estimated 53 billion litres (14 billion US gallons) sold each year.[15]

Australia

In Australia, Hypermarkets were at their peak during the 1980's. This was especially prevalent during the era of South African owned Pick n Pay Stores and a now discontinued format of Kmart Australia Stores known as Super Kmart. This trend in the Australian market soon lost its appeal into the 1990's. Super Kmart stores were discontinued and Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Stores opened in the former location. Pick n Pay continued to operate in Australia until the 2000's when their locations at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills were converted into Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Department Stores.

As of 2022, the only Hypermarket or Big-Box Store operational in Australia are Costco Wholesale Warehouses with currently thirteen stores in Australia - four stores in Melbourne, three stores in Sydney, two stores in Brisbane and one store each in Newcastle, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth, with construction underway on the fourteenth store in Queensland's Gold Coast. There were plans for German Hypermarket company Kaufland to open stores in Australia announced in 2019; these plans were cancelled in 2020.

Size

 
The produce section of a typical Walmart Supercenter (Walmart's hypermarket brand) in Mexico

The average Walmart Supercenter covers around 16,500 m2 (178,000 sq ft), with the largest ones covering 24,000 m2 (260,000 sq ft).[16] A typical Carrefour hypermarket still covers 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft), while the European trend in the 2000s has rather turned towards smaller hypermarkets of 3,000 to 5,000 m2 (32,000 to 54,000 sq ft).[17] In France, INSEE defines hypermarkets (French: hypermarché/s) as non-specialized markets with a minimum size of 2,500 m2 (27,000 sq ft).[18]

Future

Despite its success, the hypermarket business model may be under threat from online shopping and the shift towards customization according to analysts like Sanjeev Sanyal, Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist, until 2015.[19] Sanyal has argued that some developing countries such as India may omit the hypermarket stage and directly go online.[20]

Warehouse club

Main article: Warehouse club

Another category of stores sometimes included in the hypermarket category are the membership-based wholesale warehouse clubs that are popular in North America, pioneered by Fedco and today including Sam's Club, a division of Walmart; Costco, in which Carrefour owned some shares[21] from 1985 to 1996; BJ's Wholesale Club on the East Coast; and Clubes City Club in Mexico. In Europe, Makro (owned by METRO AG) leads the market.

However, warehouse clubs differ from hypermarkets in that they have sparse interior decor and require paid membership. In addition, warehouse clubs usually sell bigger packages and have fewer choices in each category of items.

See also

References

  1. ^ Staff, Investopedia (2007-06-24). "Hypermarket". Investopedia. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  2. ^ Grimmeau 2013, p. 3.
  3. ^ Jean-Mark Villermet, Naissance de l'hypermarche, 1991, ISBN 2-200-37263-9, Colin (publisher).
  4. ^ "Bernardo Trujillo, l'accoucheur des grandes surfaces". Les Echos. 8 December 1999. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  5. ^ Grimmeau 2013, pp. 1–3.
  6. ^ Grimmeau 2013, pp. 2, 7.
  7. ^ Grimmeau 2013, p. 8.
  8. ^ FundingUniverse: Fred Meyer Stores, Inc. History Linked 2014-01-09
  9. ^ Meijer website: Our Company 2014-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Linked 2014-01-09
  10. ^ Meijer website: Our History Linked 2014-01-09 2014-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Column: Meijer's first Super center past its prime but full of good memories". MLive.com. 12 October 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  12. ^ "Walmart Corporate - We save people money so they can live better". Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  13. ^ . Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  14. ^ Target website: Target through the years Linked 2014-01-09
  15. ^ The History of Gasoline Retailing 2011-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Paul Ausick (22 March 2014). "Walmart Now Has Six Types of Stores". 24/7 Wall Street. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  17. ^ David Jolly (27 January 2012). "Carrefour Rethinks Its 'Bigger Is Better' Strategy". New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  18. ^ La situation du commerce en 2014 [The situation of commerce in 2014] (PDF) (Report) (in French). INSEE. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  19. ^ "Sanjeev Sanyal on The Customization Revolution - Project Syndicate". Project Syndicate. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  20. ^ "Sanjeev Sanyal on Clicks over Bricks in India - Project Syndicate". Project Syndicate. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  21. ^ Robert Spector, "Carrefour enters U.S. via share in Costco", Supermarket News, January 1985.

Bibliography

  • Grimmeau, Jean-Pierre (10 June 2013). "A forgotten anniversary: the first European hypermarkets open in Brussels in 1961". Brussels Studies (67). doi:10.4000/brussels.1155. ISSN 2031-0293. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

External links

  •   Media related to Supermarkets at Wikimedia Commons

March 15, 2023
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A hypermarket sometimes called a hyperstore supercentre or superstore is a big box store combining a supermarket and a department store 1 The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof including full grocery lines and general merchandise In theory hypermarkets allow customers to satisfy all their routine shopping needs in one trip The term hypermarket French hypermarche was coined in 1968 by French trade expert Jacques Pictet 2 European hypermarket in Finland a branch of K Citymarket in Viiri Shopping Centre in Klaukkala Nurmijarvi Greater Helsinki Asian hypermarket in the Philippines a branch of SM Hypermarket in SM Mall of Asia in Pasay Metro Manila Hypermarkets like other big box stores typically have business models focusing on high volume low margin sales Typically covering an area of 5 000 to 15 000 square metres 54 000 to 161 000 sq ft 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Canada 1 2 Europe 1 3 Japan 1 4 United States 1 5 Australia 2 Size 3 Future 4 Warehouse club 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Bibliography 7 External linksHistory EditCanada Edit Loblaws established its Real Canadian Superstore chain in 1979 It sells mainly groceries while also retailing clothing electronics and housewares Its largest competitor in Canada is Walmart These are the two major Canadian hypermarkets Europe Edit Produce section in Saveco Kuwait The first European hypermarket is commonly mistaken to be the Carrefour store that opened in 1963 at Sainte Genevieve des Bois France 3 The co founders were influenced by the teachings of Colombian born American marketing executive Bernardo Trujillo who taught executive education as part of the NCR Corporation s marketing campaign 4 However the Belgian retailer Grand Bazar preceded Carrefour by two years when it opened three hypermarkets in a short span in 1961 under the name SuperBazar after Belgian law restricting the size of department stores was abolished in January 1961 The first SuperBazar opened in Bruges on 9 September 1961 initially designed to become a non food department store however only covered a surface area of 3 300 square metres 36 000 sq ft and was later converted into a regular supermarket The substantially larger store that opened a week later in Auderghem Brussels covering 9 100 m2 98 000 sq ft is regarded as a more proper hypermarket that brought the concept to fruition 5 It was Belgian market development engineer Maurice Cauwe fr who adopted the concept from his frequent trips to the United States particularly inspired from the Grand Union s Grand Way center in Paramus New Jersey 6 In France hypermarkets are generally situated in shopping centers French centre commercial or centre d achats outside cities though some are present in the city center They are surrounded by extensive car parking facilities and generally by other specialized superstores that sell clothing sports gear automotive items etc After the successes of super and hyper markets and amid fears that smaller stores would be forced out of business France enacted laws that made it more difficult to build hypermarkets and also restricted the amount of economic leverage that hypermarket chains can impose upon their suppliers the Loi Galland Japan Edit The predecessor to Ito Yokado was founded in 1920 selling western goods went public in 1957 and switched to that name in 1965 Seibu Department Stores was founded in 1956 and opened up its grocery chain Seiyu Group in 1963 Isao Nakauchi founded the first Daiei in Kobe in 1957 selling clothing electronics furniture and groceries all in one store Jusco was created in 1970 and eventually became known as AEON In Japanese hypermarkets are known as 総合スーパー Sougou Suupaa General Merchandise Stores There is a distinction in Japanese between スーパー Supers and デパート Departs with the former being discounters but the latter selling luxury brand clothing and quite often high end groceries as well Hypermarkets may be found in urban areas as well as less populated areas The Japanese government encourages hypermarket installations as mutual investment by financial stocks are a common way to run hypermarkets Japanese hypermarkets may contain restaurants manga Japanese comic stands Internet cafes typical department store merchandise a full range of groceries beauty salons and other services all in the same store A recent when trend has been to combine the dollar store concept with the hypermarket blueprint giving rise to the hyakkin plaza hyakkin 百均 or hyaku en 百円 means 100 yen roughly 1 US dollar United States Edit Packaged food aisles at a Fred Meyer hypermarket in Portland Oregon Until the 1980s large stores combining food and non food items were unusual in the United States although early predecessors existed since the first half of the 20th century 7 The Pacific Northwest chain Fred Meyer now a division of the Kroger supermarket company opened the first suburban one stop shopping center in 1931 in the Hollywood District of Portland Oregon The store s innovations included a grocery store alongside a drugstore plus off street parking and an automobile lubrication and oil service In 1933 men s and women s wear was added and automotive department housewares and other nonfood products followed in succeeding years In the mid 1930s Fred Meyer opened a central bakery a candy kitchen an ice cream plant and a photo finishing plant which supplied the company s stores in Portland and neighbouring cities with house brands such as Vita Bee bread Hocus Pocus desserts and Fifth Avenue candies By the 1950s Fred Meyer began opening stores that were 4 200 to 6 500 m2 45 000 to 70 000 sq ft and the 1960s saw the first modern sized Fred Meyer hypermarkets 8 The Midwest then grocery chain Meijer which today operates about 235 stores in six US states coined the term super center 9 and opened the first of its hypermarket format store in Grand Rapids Michigan in June 1962 under the brand name Thrifty Acres 10 11 In the late 1980s and early 1990s the three major US discount store chains Walmart Kmart and Target started developing similar format chains Wal Mart as it was known before its late 2000s rebranding as Walmart introduced Hypermart USA in 1987 followed by Wal Mart Supercenter and Auchan in 1988 12 Kmart opened its first Super Kmart originally called Kmart Super Center in 1991 13 and Target came with the first Target Greatland stores in 1990 followed by the larger SuperTarget stores in 1995 14 Most Greatland stores have since been converted to SuperTarget stores while some have been converted into regular Target stores with the exception of 2 entrances one example of this is the Antioch California location In the early 1990s US hypermarkets also began selling fuel The idea was first introduced in the 1960s when a number of supermarket chains and retailers like Sears tried to sell fuel but it didn t generate sufficient consumer interest at the time Today there are approximately 4 500 hypermarket stores in the US selling fuel representing an estimated 53 billion litres 14 billion US gallons sold each year 15 Australia Edit In Australia Hypermarkets were at their peak during the 1980 s This was especially prevalent during the era of South African owned Pick n Pay Stores and a now discontinued format of Kmart Australia Stores known as Super Kmart This trend in the Australian market soon lost its appeal into the 1990 s Super Kmart stores were discontinued and Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Stores opened in the former location Pick n Pay continued to operate in Australia until the 2000 s when their locations at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills were converted into Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Department Stores As of 2022 the only Hypermarket or Big Box Store operational in Australia are Costco Wholesale Warehouses with currently thirteen stores in Australia four stores in Melbourne three stores in Sydney two stores in Brisbane and one store each in Newcastle Canberra Adelaide and Perth with construction underway on the fourteenth store in Queensland s Gold Coast There were plans for German Hypermarket company Kaufland to open stores in Australia announced in 2019 these plans were cancelled in 2020 Size Edit The produce section of a typical Walmart Supercenter Walmart s hypermarket brand in Mexico The average Walmart Supercenter covers around 16 500 m2 178 000 sq ft with the largest ones covering 24 000 m2 260 000 sq ft 16 A typical Carrefour hypermarket still covers 10 000 m2 110 000 sq ft while the European trend in the 2000s has rather turned towards smaller hypermarkets of 3 000 to 5 000 m2 32 000 to 54 000 sq ft 17 In France INSEE defines hypermarkets French hypermarche s as non specialized markets with a minimum size of 2 500 m2 27 000 sq ft 18 Future EditDespite its success the hypermarket business model may be under threat from online shopping and the shift towards customization according to analysts like Sanjeev Sanyal Deutsche Bank s Global Strategist until 2015 19 Sanyal has argued that some developing countries such as India may omit the hypermarket stage and directly go online 20 Warehouse club EditMain article Warehouse club Another category of stores sometimes included in the hypermarket category are the membership based wholesale warehouse clubs that are popular in North America pioneered by Fedco and today including Sam s Club a division of Walmart Costco in which Carrefour owned some shares 21 from 1985 to 1996 BJ s Wholesale Club on the East Coast and Clubes City Club in Mexico In Europe Makro owned by METRO AG leads the market However warehouse clubs differ from hypermarkets in that they have sparse interior decor and require paid membership In addition warehouse clubs usually sell bigger packages and have fewer choices in each category of items See also Edit Business and economics portal Supermarkets portalList of hypermarkets Types of retail outlets Shelf ready packagingReferences Edit Staff Investopedia 2007 06 24 Hypermarket Investopedia Retrieved 2018 09 26 Grimmeau 2013 p 3 Jean Mark Villermet Naissance de l hypermarche 1991 ISBN 2 200 37263 9 Colin publisher Bernardo Trujillo l accoucheur des grandes surfaces Les Echos 8 December 1999 Retrieved 10 February 2018 Grimmeau 2013 pp 1 3 Grimmeau 2013 pp 2 7 Grimmeau 2013 p 8 FundingUniverse Fred Meyer Stores Inc History Linked 2014 01 09 Meijer website Our Company Archived 2014 02 07 at the Wayback Machine Linked 2014 01 09 Meijer website Our History Linked 2014 01 09 Archived 2014 01 25 at the Wayback Machine Column Meijer s first Super center past its prime but full of good memories MLive com 12 October 2008 Retrieved 30 July 2015 Walmart Corporate We save people money so they can live better Retrieved 30 July 2015 Sears Holdings Corporation Corporate Website Archived from the original on 20 October 2008 Retrieved 30 July 2015 Target website Target through the years Linked 2014 01 09 The History of Gasoline Retailing Archived 2011 03 24 at the Wayback Machine Paul Ausick 22 March 2014 Walmart Now Has Six Types of Stores 24 7 Wall Street Retrieved 17 June 2016 David Jolly 27 January 2012 Carrefour Rethinks Its Bigger Is Better Strategy New York Times Retrieved 17 June 2016 La situation du commerce en 2014 The situation of commerce in 2014 PDF Report in French INSEE 18 December 2015 Retrieved 17 June 2016 Sanjeev Sanyal on The Customization Revolution Project Syndicate Project Syndicate 22 March 2012 Retrieved 30 July 2015 Sanjeev Sanyal on Clicks over Bricks in India Project Syndicate Project Syndicate 5 October 2012 Retrieved 30 July 2015 Robert Spector Carrefour enters U S via share in Costco Supermarket News January 1985 Bibliography Edit Grimmeau Jean Pierre 10 June 2013 A forgotten anniversary the first European hypermarkets open in Brussels in 1961 Brussels Studies 67 doi 10 4000 brussels 1155 ISSN 2031 0293 Retrieved 28 March 2020 External links Edit Media related to Supermarkets at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hypermarket amp oldid 1136087655, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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