In Germany, Metro will add Wal-Mart's hypermarkets to its existing Real chain of 288 stores.
Currently the retail hypermarkets are expanding rapidly with cash generated in polymers and fertilizers.
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McKinsey reckons that, on average, foreign hypermarkets are making 3.3% operating profit, while locals are making 0.9%.
It operates 1, 200 7-Eleven stores, eight hypermarkets run jointly with Carrefour, and more than 10, 000 vending machines.
He wants to employ more staff and lengthen the operating hours in the group's 100 biggest hypermarkets.
Its Malaysian partner, Sime Darby, was able to find suitable properties for hypermarkets.
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By 2005 Wumart had more than 450 hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores.
The world's second biggest retailer operates 72 hypermarkets and 20 other stores in the country, with annual sales excluding petrol of 1.5bn euros.
LuLu runs a string of hypermarkets, supermarkets and grocery stores in the Middle East, Africa and will soon launch its first mall in India.
This year, the group is focusing on a joint venture with French supermarket company Carrefour to open "hypermarkets" in the coastal city of Tianjin.
Mr Duran also intends to increase the range of products on offer by as much as 15% in hypermarkets and by one-tenth in supermarkets.
Wal-Mart tried to get its existing stores right instead of building critical mass, which would have meant opening or buying another 400 or so hypermarkets.
This year Carrefour has pulled out of Japan and sold 29 hypermarkets in Mexico, where it could not compete with Walmex, the local version of Wal-Mart.
All those shiny new condo buildings, huge hypermarkets, highways, etc.
Hypermarkets have sprouted in the husks of Lodz's abandoned factories.
Leclerc is today the leading operator of hypermarkets in France.
There will be 2, 000-5, 000-square-foot convenience-food stores of the sort now being opened in Hyderabad, and also bigger, 25, 000-50, 000-square-foot hypermarkets, starting with one in Ahmedabad at the end of the year.
If the strategy fails to revive Carrefour's French hypermarkets by the end of next year, some investors will demand that the firm be taken to the charcuterie counter and carved up.
In order to placate the smaller shopkeepers, Mr Bersani says no more licences will be given to the huge new hypermarkets, of which 230 already exist and which are the small-timers' worst threat.
The new finance minister, Teresa Lubinska, exemplified the government's uncertain touch last week by blithely dismissing foreign hypermarkets as unwelcome investors, and boasting of her work in local government to frustrate their expansion.
He added that Tesco should have an advantage over its traditional rivals with its lower fixed-cost base, benefiting from its Internet base as well as its ability to set up shop at Tesco hypermarkets.
This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
With guidance from Jean Duboc, a veteran of Carrefour's hypermarket division, CBD has reduced construction and operating costs of its hypermarkets by 30% since 2000 by making simple changes like renting out space at store entrances.
Metro, Europe's largest retailer, said earlier this month that it wants to shed as many as six subsidiaries within three years to concentrate on international expansion and its established retailing operations, such as cash-and-carry and hypermarkets.
Tesco also announced that it is shutting down four stores as part of a consolidation campaign, apparently giving up on its earlier goal to double the number of its Chinese hypermarkets to more than 200 by 2016.
While most of the great champagne houses have been around since the 19th century, Nicolas Feuillatte has emerged from nowhere in the last 15 years to become the bestselling champagne in French hypermarkets and the seventh-biggest producer overall (see table).
Auchan, which now makes more than half of its sales outside its home market in France - a dozen new shops are opened each year - recently announced a franchising deal that will rebrand 13 Max Hypermarkets in India as Auchan.
While supermarkets and hypermarkets are more sparsely located owing to their space requirements and high rental rates in densely populated urban areas, drugstores have leveraged their small size, convenient locations and proximity to the consumers and stocked up their grocery supplies to attract traffic.
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