How to Use hypermarket in a Sentence

hypermarket

noun
  • Lapy, like many towns and cities across Poland, has a British Tesco hypermarket.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Walmart has a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.
    — USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the hypermarket format — which combines a supermarket and department store — has lost momentum as digital retail took off.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 2020, our office became the lead investor in a hypermarket development startup based in Baghdad, Iraq, that has since grown into a remarkable success story.
    — Rami Harajli, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • According to several Romanian news outlets, the fence in the photo separated sections of essential and nonessential goods at a Kaufland hypermarket.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Walmart's success Walmart entered China in 1996 with its first hypermarket and Sam's Club warehouse chain in Shenzhen.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Across the pond, the Mondragon worker cooperative complex in Spain operates over 2000 stores, including hypermarkets, grocery stores, gas stations, and even perfume stores.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Walmart has closed almost 150 hypermarkets in China since 2020, with just 279 stores operational as of July, down from 412 in 2020.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The company’s portfolio includes Big C, Thailand’s second-largest hypermarket chain, with operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Hong Kong.
    — Kevin Lim, CNBC, 31 May 2026
  • Filmed on location in Mallorca, the six-part series follows Tom (Lasson) and Petra (Linnertorp), a successful Swedish couple who sell their hypermarket in Sweden for a tidy sum and head for a life of luxury on the Spanish island.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025

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