- The Story Behind the Largest Walmart in America - AOL
Here's how the biggest Walmart in the U S — a massive two-story supercenter — came to be
- Walmart - Wikipedia
Walmart Inc ( ˈwɔːlmɑːrt ⓘ; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc ) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas [7]
- Hypermart USA - Wikipedia
The first Walmart Supercenter, which used a floorplan in the 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m 2) range, was opened in 1988 in Washington, Missouri [4] As the Supercenter proved to be a much more profitable experiment, Walmart renamed the stores "Wal-Mart's Hypermart USA" in April 1990, and eventually began converting them to Supercenter operations
- History of Walmart - Wikipedia
The supercenter concept features everything contained in an average Walmart discount store, in addition to a tire and oil change shop, optical center, one-hour photo processing lab, portrait studio, and numerous alcove shops such as banks, cellular telephone stores, hair and nail salons, video rental stores, and fast-food outlets
- Big-box store - Wikipedia
A big-box store, a hyperstore, a supercenter, a superstore, or a megastore is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores The term sometimes also refers, by extension, to the company that operates the store
- Crossgates Commons - Wikipedia
The Walmart located at Crossgates Commons became the largest Walmart in the United States (and the largest outside of China) in 2008, when it expanded into a Walmart Supercenter, now occupying 260,000 square feet (24,000 m 2) over two floors
- List of superstores - Wikipedia
Walmart - groceries, clothing, general merchandise Walmart Supercenter Walmart Neighborhood Market Walmart Express (defunct) Wegmans - groceries, general merchandise Weis Markets - groceries, general merchandise Wet Seal - clothing (defunct) Whole Foods Market - groceries, emphasizing 'natural', locally-sourced and organic products
- Hypermarket - Wikipedia
Wal-Mart (as it was known before its late-2000s rebranding as Walmart) introduced Hypermart USA in 1987, followed by Wal-Mart Supercenter in 1988; [12] The same year, French chains Carrefour and Auchan opened hypermarkets in Philadelphia and Greater Houston, respectively [13]
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