How to Use supercenter in a Sentence

supercenter

noun
  • Some of her work was hands-on, like when Walmart announced a new supercenter in the tiny Maine town of Damariscotta.
    David Streitfeld, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • But the supercenters for which Walmart is best known tend to exist on the outskirts of cities and in rural areas.
    Tiffany Hsu and Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Walmart currently has 27 stores, supercenters and markets in the county, as well as one Sam’s Club in San Diego.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The decision was good news for Shoprite, which anticipated a death blow to its Spencer Street store if the supercenter had been built.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The phone draws us into the depths of the great parking lot that sprawls and spins its way away from the looming stuccoed fortification that houses the new supercenter.
    The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, a Walmart supercenter -- one of the few grocery suppliers nearby -- closed its doors.
    Drew Kann, CNN, 14 June 2017
  • Even Walmart is trying to get in on the action, launching drive-ins at supercenter locations across the country.
    Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The retailer is also learning from its all-self-checkout Walmart supercenter in Plano but has no plans yet to expand that test.
    Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In early 2006, Damariscotta voters changed the town zoning, blocking the supercenter.
    David Streitfeld, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • To account for the lack of a voting supercenter, the Elections Board planned to open additional voting sites in Wards 7 and 8 than other wards and place more ballot drop boxes in that part of the city.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Walmart: Open; hours may vary by location but many Walmart supercenters are open 24 hours.
    Jamie Ballard, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The retailer will open fewer than 15 supercenters next fiscal year, down from about 35 additions in the current year.
    Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Walmart will expand a program that stations store workers in the busiest sections of its massive supercenters.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Finally, when in doubt, a small denomination gift card to a big box store/supercenter in their area is always a lifesaver.
    Southern Living, 12 July 2018
  • Then there’s Walmart Health, a chain of medical clinics that the retailer has been building to serve as sort of supercenters for medical care.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Collins said the district is working to combine the technology classes and the library into one supercenter of learning.
    Frank S. Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The report counts those smaller store sales separately from the Walmart supercenters.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In Chesapeake, Virginia, details are emerging about the six people who police say were shot to death by a manager at a Walmart supercenter Tuesday night.
    CBS News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The dry-goods stores and corner groceries serving rural America were giving way to the discount store and later the supercenter, which combined food with the discounter’s vast array of products.
    Hendrik Meijer, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • With its sleek products and trendy designers, the company had an edge over Wal-Mart’s bland supercenters, and developed a cult following among customers.
    Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
  • Walmart sells guns in roughly half of its nearly 4,000 supercenters, the company said, but the sheer scale of its customer base gives its decision significant heft.
    Julie Creswell and Michael Corkery, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The Reston supercenter is already equipped to handle whatever magic Ovitz can conjure up.
    David Kline, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1995
  • The year before, Walmart had tried to buy the mall and turn it into a supercenter, but residents were not keen on the idea and the City Council scuttled the plan with zoning requirements that made big-box retail impossible.
    Steve Vockrodt, kansascity.com, 3 July 2017
  • The retailer has combined its Walmart Grocery app with its main app to allow consumers to shop for items in multiple departments, much like a trip to one of the company's supercenter stores.
    Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 20 May 2020
  • Walmart is also closing 12 supercenters and four Sam’s Club membership stores.
    Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2016
  • In a move that was controversial at the time, Mr. Glass pushed Walmart to sell low-margin fresh food and groceries alongside general merchandise in a new cavernous store format, opening the first supercenter in the late 1980s.
    Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the riskiest stores to work in include those selling home furnishings, used merchandise and building materials, as well as tire dealers and supercenters.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Weekly quiz This supercenter began as a family grocer in 1934.
    Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2020
  • First, the design was changed in a big way to accommodate a business that will become the $200-million development’s largest, Meijer’s, a Midwest supercenter chain that sells food, fashion, electronics, and more.
    cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, the supercenter is again the workhorse for Walmart and is facilitating its e-commerce strategy.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020

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