supermarket
Sign in to savethumb|A typical Stop & Shop supermarket in [[Long Branch, New Jersey]] thumb|upright=1.35|Inside an Asda supermarket in the United Kingdom A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections under one roof. The supermarket retail format first appeared around 1930 in the United States as the culmination of almost two decades of retail innovations to the grocery store, and began to spread to other countries after extensive worldwide publicity in 1956. In everyday American English usage, "grocery store" is often used inte
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A supermarket is a self-service store that sells a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products organized into different sections under one roof. This retail format originated in the United States around 1930 and spread to other countries after gaining worldwide attention in 1956, becoming a major way that people shop for everyday necessities.
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20 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history of retail food sales
- Early experiments in building large stores and chain stores
- Self-service grocery stores
- Birth of the supermarket
- Grocery stores become supermarkets
- International expansion
- In the 21st century
- Online-only supermarkets (21st century)
- Types
- U.S. categorization
- Organic and environmentally-friendly supermarkets
- Growth in developing countries
- Typical supermarket merchandise
- Layout strategies
- Criticisms
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A typical Stop & Shop supermarket in [[Long Branch, New Jersey]] thumb|upright=1.35|Inside an Asda supermarket in the United Kingdom A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections under one roof. The supermarket retail format first appeared around 1930 in the United States as the culmination of almost two decades of retail innovations to the grocery store, and began to spread to other countries after extensive worldwide publicity in 1956. In everyday American English usage, "grocery store" is often used interchangeably with "supermarket", while in other regions a supermarket is larger and has a wider selection, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or megastore, which developed decades later.
The supermarket typically has places for fresh meat, fresh produce, dairy, deli items, baked goods, and similar foodstuffs. Shelf space is also reserved for canned and packaged goods and for various non-food items such as kitchenware, household cleaners, pharmacy products and pet supplies. Some supermarkets also sell other household products that are consumed regularly, such as alcohol (where permitted), medicine, and clothing, and some sell a much wider range of non-food products: DVDs, art supplies, sporting equipment, board games, and seasonal items (e.g., Christmas wrapping paper, Easter eggs, school uniforms, Valentine's Day themed gifts, Mother's Day gifts, Father's Day gifts and Halloween).