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ˈsupermarket orig. U.S.
Also super market.
[super- 6 c.]
1. a. A large self-service shop, selling a wide range of groceries and household goods, and freq. one of a chain of stores.
1933N.Y. Times 25 Feb. 28/1 In a move interpreted by the trade as an effort to help both corporate chains and independent wholesale grocers fight the competition of ‘super-markets’ which have sprung up in the last two years, the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., yesterday drew up a proposed model law for States which may seek to prevent the sale of standard grocery products at or below purchase price. Ibid. 5 Mar. 11/4 For three months now a large supermarket in New Jersey has been doing a business reputed to average $100,000 a week. 1933Chain Store Age (Gen. Merchandise ed.) June 95/1 The ‘One-stop-drive-in super market’ provides free parking, and every kind of food under one roof. 1949R. Graves Seven Days in New Crete 121 We buyers..drifted round with our baskets, silently helping ourselves to whatever we wanted... The procedure recalled that of an American super-market. 1959Spectator 25 Sept. 409/1 This applies particularly to supermarkets, whose whole economy depends on people going in to buy a can of beans and coming out with a dazed expression and three pounds' worth of groceries. 1969Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 6 July 8/2 Your supplies..come from a good delicatessen and..your super market. 1978Oxford Consumer Mar. 4/1 The change from counter to self-service stores in Britain only started in the late 1950's/early 1960's, when a supermarket was defined as having a minimum sales area of 2,000 sq. ft. 1979M. Boyce I was There! 70 The pithead baths is a supermarket now.
b. transf. and fig.
1962Listener 26 July 127/2 The Marshall Plan and this vast new Supermarket have destroyed the roots of that sickness. 1973J. W. Polier in A. E. Wilkerson Rights of Children p. xiv, The 1970 White House Conference on Children announced that prepared reports would offer ‘a supermarket of proposals’.
2. a. attrib., as supermarket chain, supermarket company, supermarket shopping, etc.
1933N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 15/8 The independent and corporate chain stores are standing together against the alleged menace of the ‘super-market’ competition. 1934Archit. Rec. LXXVI. 206 Markets are now built up to the street line and are of the ‘super-market’ type. 1951C. W. Mills White Collar i. ii. 25 As supermarkets mushroomed..the chains began to imitate their supermarket competitors. 1963Times Rev. Industry Aug. 65/2 Premier..is one of the few supermarket companies proper with a highly developed and well integrated scheme. 1967G. Wills in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Management Technol. 192 A product which cannot gain distribution in the major supermarket chains may have a very high direct percentage distribution yet a low percentage sterling distribution. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places iii. 115 We seem to have fixed on the same day for supermarket shopping. 1977F. Parrish Fire in Barley ii. 24 A lifetime of deep-frozen scampi, supermarket Riesling, [etc.].
b. Comb., as supermarket trolley, a wire basket on wheels which a supermarket customer can push around the shop collecting goods for purchase; also (U.S.) supermarket cart.
1972Even. Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 28 June 29/6 (Advt.), 5 supermarket carts.
1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 21/3 (Advt.), Lawn mowers, kitchenware, glassware, 22 supermarket trollies. 1977Irish Times 8 June 8/8, I wandered in to sit with the farmers, and saw a heifer that would fit into a supermarket trolley sell for {pstlg}60. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 95/1 He and his chums stage a mixed doubles wheelbarrow/piggy-back/supermarket trolley race down the High/the Broad/the Cornmarket.
Hence ˌsupermarkeˈteer [-eer], a person or company involved in a supermarket business.
1960Spectator 13 May 712 Nor have many of the supermarketeers realised that self-service in itself gets you nowhere. 1964Punch 29 Jan. 174/3 Other supermarketeers include London Grocers. 1973Guardian 17 Feb. 13/6 To ask them to cut their profits still further would, in the view of the supermarketeer, be both unjust and ineffective. |