SUPERMARKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supermarket mean? 

• SUPERMARKET (noun)
  The noun SUPERMARKET has 1 sense:

1. a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

  Familiarity information: SUPERMARKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERMARKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("supermarket" is a kind of...):

food market; grocery; grocery store; market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supermarket"):

hypermarket (a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town))

 Context examples 

Some consumers crave tastier tomatoes than those available at the supermarket.

(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)

In addition, 17% fewer small packages of these items were bought and taken home from supermarkets immediately after introducing a checkout food policy.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

One of the pleasures in life is having a home that offers enough space, is in a safe neighborhood, is close to your work, and that offers services nearby, like supermarkets, good schools, playgrounds, and all the other everyday things you need.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When we come out of the supermarket and think about where we left the car, for example, we only need to recall where we parked the car today, rather than being distracted by recalling every single time we came to do our shopping.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

Several supermarkets have now introduced policies to remove these items from their checkouts.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

"We're just fixing what has been damaged over the last half-century to push them back to where they were, taste-wise. We can make the supermarket tomato taste noticeably better."

(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)

We need to retrieve these memories to help us carry out our daily tasks, whether remembering where we left the car in the supermarket car park or recalling the name of someone we meet in the street.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

The researchers found that shoppers made 76% fewer annual purchases of less healthy common checkout foods from supermarkets with checkout food policies compared to those without.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

The study found that 76% fewer purchases of sugary confectionary, chocolate and potato crisps were bought and eaten ‘on-the-go’ from supermarkets with checkout food policies compared to those without.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Next, they looked at data from 7,500 shoppers who recorded food bought and eaten ‘on-the-go’ during 2016-17 from supermarkets with and without checkout food policies.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)