An economy supermarket combined with a discount department store under one roof At 200,000 square feet or larger, this is the most capital intensive of all supermarket formats
European term (after the French hypermarché) for a large retail food store, typically of 5,000m2 or more, and almost invariably with an attached low-cost gas station Hypermarkets have indirectly led to the closure of many thousands of smaller service stations, especially in France and the UK The first example was opened by Carrefour in 1963 at Sainte Geneviève-des-Bois