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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. The term "big-box" references the typical appearance of buildings occupied by such stores. [1]
A power center [1] [2] or big-box center (known in Canadian and Commonwealth English as power centre or big-box centre) is a shopping center with typically 250,000 to 600,000 square feet (23,000 to 56,000 m 2) of gross leasable area [2] that usually contains three or more big box anchor tenants and various smaller retailers, [1] where the ...
Its average store is around 125,000 square feet, and out of its 1,963 stores across the US, over 170 are considered small-format. Those stores are a third of the regular size, under 50,000 square ...
Target, Ikea and Walmart are just some of the chains that have experienced with smaller-sized stores The incredible shrinking store: Big-box retailers embrace smaller stores to fit into more ...
This is a list of big-box stores by country. Multi-national Auchan ... Big Lots - discount store, general merchandise, furniture; Books-A-Million - books, music, videos
"In our lifetime we will see the last Walmart (WMT) discount store disappear," says John Rand, director of retail insights for Kantar Research in Massachusetts. It's a bold forecast -- and one ...
Home Quarters Warehouse (HQ) was an American chain of "big-box" home improvement stores, originally based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.In 1984, the chemical manufacturing company W.R. Grace & Co. announced its intentions to enter the home improvement retail business, hiring Bernard R. Kossar and Frank Doczi to head the new chain.
Smaller stores don’t have the power or market share to receive the same discounts, meaning they charge more than big box stores — or simply shut down because they can’t compete.