Supermarket generally refers to a store where goods are publicly displayed, customers choose their own goods, queue up for cashier settlement, and mainly engage in fresh food, fruits and daily necessities. Self-help shopping, unified cashier settlement retail enterprises. In China, supermarkets were introduced by 1978, then called supermarkets.
Supermarkets generally distribute food and daily necessities, with the following main features: ① small profits but quick turnover, and basically no salespersons to handle middle and low-grade goods; (2) The goods are packed in small packages, indicating the weight, specifications and price; (3) equipped with cars or baskets for customers to choose goods; (4) go out and settle the payment at one time.
There are two theories about the birth of the first supermarket in the world.
On September 9, 2006, the first self-service store, Piggy Twist, opened in Memphis, Tennessee. Its operator, Clarence Saunders, applied for a patent in 19 17 for this retail business model in which consumers choose their own goods on the shelves and finally settle accounts. This is the prototype of the supermarket.
2. It was first produced in new york, USA in 1930. 1In August, 930, American MichaelCullen opened the first joint store-Golden Cullen in new york, USA.