What is a supermarket?

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What is a supermarket?

Answer 1

A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. The supermarket typically comprises meat, produce, dairy, and baked goods departments along with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various nonfood items such as household cleaners, pharmacy products, and pet supplies. The traditional supermarket occupies a large floor space on a single level and is situated near a residential area in order to be convenient to consumers. Its basic appeal is the availability of a broad selection of goods under a single roof at relatively low prices. Other advantages include ease of parking and, frequently, the convenience of shopping hours that extend far into the evening. Supermarkets usually make massive outlays for newspaper and other advertising and often present elaborate in-store displays of products. A supermarket is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store. Most supermarkets also sell a variety of other household products that are consumed regularly

Answer 2

It's a big grocery store, we call it a supermarket just because it's a catchy name.

Answer 3

A department store. Haven't you ever been to Big Baazar?

Answer 4

supermarket, where u can buy each n everything on one single plce

like have u seen superman, he can do each n every thing

Answer 5

A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. The supermarket typically comprises meat, produce, dairy, and baked goods departments along with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various nonfood items such as household cleaners, pharmacy products, and pet supplies. The traditional supermarket occupies a large floor space on a single level and is situated near a residential area in order to be convenient to consumers. Its basic appeal is the availability of a broad selection of goods under a single roof at relatively low prices. Other advantages include ease of parking and, frequently, the convenience of shopping hours that extend far into the evening. Supermarkets usually make massive outlays for newspaper and other advertising and often present elaborate in-store displays of products. A supermarket is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store. Most supermarkets also sell a variety of other household products that are consumed regularly, such as alcohol (where permitted), household cleaning products, medicine, clothes, and some sell a much wider range of non-food products. Supermarkets are often part of a chain that owns or controls (sometimes by franchise) other supermarkets located in the same or other towns; this increases the opportunities for economies of scale. In the United States, supermarket chains are often supplied from the distribution centers of a larger business.

Supermarkets usually offer products at low prices by reducing margins. Certain products (typically staples such as bread, milk and sugar) are often sold as loss leaders, that is, with negative margins. To maintain a profit, supermarkets attempt to make up for the low margins with a high overall volume of sales, and with sales of higher-margin items. Customers usually shop by putting their products into shopping carts (trolleys) or baskets (self-service) and pay for the products at the check-out. At present, many supermarket chains are trying to reduce labour costs further by shifting to self-service check-out machines, where a group of four or five machines is supervised by a single assistant.

A larger full-service supermarket combined with a department store is sometimes known as a hypermarket. Other services that supermarkets may have include cafés, creches, photo development, pharmacies, and/or gas stations.

Answer 6

market - all things r available from different vendors

supermarket - under one roof, from one vendor, all things r available.

market- a noisy polluted place

supermarket- musicated, ACied, pleasent place

Answer 7

Generally, it is a large store that focuses on general groceries, such as meats, vegetables, breads.

From Wikipedia:

A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. The supermarket typically comprises meat, produce, dairy, and baked goods departments along with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various nonfood items such as household cleaners, pharmacy products, and pet supplies. The traditional supermarket occupies a large floor space on a single level and is situated near a residential area in order to be convenient to consumers. Its basic appeal is the availability of a broad selection of goods under a single roof at relatively low prices. Other advantages include ease of parking and, frequently, the convenience of shopping hours that extend far into the evening.

Answer 8

its a place where humans are slaughtered.

Answer 9

A supermarket is a place where you can buy a lot of different items (usually food) in one place.  

For example:  I can buy beef, pork, chicken, bread, popcorn, produce, dairy, and a whole assortment of other foods in one place in the United States.  

In a lot of other places  you have to go to separate places to buy each item.