How to Use hypermarket in a Sentence

hypermarket

noun
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  • Lapy, like many towns and cities across Poland, has a British Tesco hypermarket.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The Tesco trial – the first of its kind by a major hypermarket in Malaysia – limits the bag discounts to two per transaction.
    — Michael Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
  • CP Group will gain control of a network of about 2,000 hypermarket and grocery stores across Thailand.
    — Prim Chuwiruch, Bloomberg.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Carrefour’s 20% share of the French grocery market is in danger of being chipped away by its closure of hypermarkets and the threat from German discount chains such as Lidl.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There’s one bright spot: The company is in talks to dispose of its Real hypermarkets unit and is trying to sell a stake in its China operations.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • At hypermarkets and 24-hour convenience stores, the sales of Japanese beer have nosedived.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The tycoon has been on an acquisition spree in recent years, buying stakes in companies from hypermarkets to milk producers.
    — P.r. Venkat, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • A large hypermarket chain in China, for instance, was recently approached by Alibaba about a data-sharing scheme.
    — Fortune, 16 June 2017
  • At Carrefour, his challenges include a store format known as the hypermarket--sprawling warehouses that sell everything from baguettes to bicycles--that has lost market share as consumers move online.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 12 June 2017
  • Accenture, headquartered in Ireland, was also hired in 2015 by Contidis, the company behind an Angolan hypermarket network majority-owned by dos Santos and her husband.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The Jewish owner of a large Argentine hypermarket chain has started selling kosher meat for far less than competitors, claiming that the country’s kosher supervision industry has artificially driven up costs for consumers.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2020

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