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Supermarket

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…

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Growth in developing countries

Typical supermarket merchandise

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Supermarket

Nodes173
Edges172
Triples264
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011561
Components1

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Supermarket

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related to Further reading · 55
Supermarket → America, American Scientist, American Supermarket, Avery, Basic Books, Basic Economics, Beatrice Companies, Bountiful, Chinese American Supermarkets, Columbia University Press, Commercial Space, December, Design, Food, Food Marketing Institute, From Commodities Markets, Giant Foods, Greer, Groceries, Henry
related to Birth of the supermarket · 33
Supermarket → Alpha Beta, Although Saunders, At, August, By, Cullen, Everything, Food Marketing Institute, For, Heinz, Henke, Historically, However, Jamaica, Joseph Unger, King Kullen, Kroger, Michael, Moreover, New York City
related to International expansion · 26
Supermarket → Agriculture, American, American Way, American-style, By, Cold War, Commerce, Department, Eastern Bloc, Food Chains, In, International Food Congress, Italian, Italy, Just, Most, National Association, Rome, Supermarket USA, That
related to Growth in developing countries · 20
Supermarket → American, Asia, Beginning, Carry, Cash-and-Carry, China, European, In, India, Initial, Latin America, Local, Makro, Metro Cash, New, South Africa, South-East Asia, The, While, With
related to Typical supermarket merchandise · 20
Supermarket → Bakery, Beverages, Bulk, Center, Dairy, Deli, DVD, Europe, Floral, Hypermarkets, Larger, Meat, Multicultural, Nonfood, North America, Personal, Pharmacy, Prepared Foods, Seafood, Supermarket News
related to Grocery stores become supermarkets · 18
Supermarket → American, Big Bear, By, By February, Cullen's, For, Great Depression, In, King Kullen's, Kroger, New Jersey, One, Other, P's, Safeway Inc, Stock, The, Wegmans
related to Online-only supermarkets (21st century) · 14
Supermarket → Amazon, Deliveroo, Delivery, DoorDash, During, Grocery, Morrisons, Ocado, Other, The British, United Kingdom, Waitrose, Walmart, Webvan
related to External links · 8
Supermarket → April, August, British Library's Food Stories, Explore, Food Stories Archived, San Francisco Chronicle, UK, Wayback Machine
related to In the 21st century · 8
Supermarket → ActionAid, American, Americans, As, British, The, United States, Who
related to Criticisms · 6
Supermarket → Also, For, In, Reverend John Papworth, Supermarkets, The

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supermarkets store food stores products grocery american items goods first chains customers sales also one united states large retail chain

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Supermarketis aself-service shop offering a wide variety of food0.90text
Supermarketis avisual merchandising project that plays a major role0.90text
kitchenwareinstance ofShelf space is also reserved for canned and packaged goods and for various non-food items0.80text
household cleanersinstance ofShelf space is also reserved for canned and packaged goods and for various non-food items0.80text
pharmacy productsinstance ofShelf space is also reserved for canned and packaged goods and for various non-food items0.80text
pet suppliesinstance ofShelf space is also reserved for canned and packaged goods and for various non-food items0.80text
breadinstance oftypically staple foods0.80text
milkinstance oftypically staple foods0.80text
sugarinstance oftypically staple foods0.80text
the clerk's awareness of the customer's social statusinstance ofHaggling was further complicated by other factors0.80text
ability to payinstance ofHaggling was further complicated by other factors0.80text
Wal-Martinstance oftraditional supermarkets in many countries face intense competition from discounters0.80text

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