Hypermarket

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A hypermarket wants you to be hyped about a ton of stuff you can buy.

Hypermarkets are supermarkets and department stores combined into one. They’re huge, and can be expected to have everything from groceries to clothes and other general merchandise.

One-stop-shops like Walmart can be considered hypermarkets...really, anywhere you can buy your groceries in addition to other things (shirts, pens, lawn chairs, coffee machines, bath mats...you name it).

Hypermarkets run on a business model of high volume and low-margin sales. They probably place things strategically, with things that you didn’t come there to buy, but things they're hoping they’ll get you to buy up front.

Stay strong when you enter the hypermarket; money is virtually sucked out of your coffers.com.

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