The word comes from the English supermarket supermarket, often referred to as the supermarket, refers to the way business customer choice food, household necessities mainly of large integrated retail mall, many countries, in particular the major developed economies in the form of retail organization.

   Supermarkets originated in May 1930, New York 19308, American Michael Cullen (MichaelCullen) in New York opened its first supermarket - Gold Coulomb joint store. At that time, the United States is in a period of great economic crisis, according to Michael Cullen his decades of experience in the food business precise design of low-cost strategy, and the first varieties of goods other pricing methods. It's super market average gross margin of only 9%, which was the American general store 25-40% gross margin compared to the astonishing. In order to guarantee a low price, we must do a low purchase price, only a lot of stock in order to drive down the purchase price, Michael Cullen will open the way to the chain semicolon, established to ensure that a large number of purchase sales system. It pioneered the self-service way to take a one-time centralized clearing.

   After World War II, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, the supermarket has been rapid development in the world. In the first supermarket business - mainly food, after business scope increasingly widespread, and gradually extended to the sale of clothing, household sundries, household appliances, toys, furniture and medical supplies and the like. Supermarkets General at the entrance with hand-baskets or carts used by customers, customers will pick a good product on the basket or in the car, at the exit to the cash register unified billing