SUPERMARKET

[noun] [C] - a large shop which sells most types of food and other goods needed in the home, in which people take from shelves the items they want to buy and pay for them as they leaveYou get a much bigger choice of things at a supermarket than you do at the local corner shop.The major supermarket chains (= companies which own a lot of different supermarkets in different parts of the country) are involved in a price war.(UK and ANZ) Why is it that supermarket trolleys (US carts) always have one wheel which goes in the opposite direction to the other three?(US) A supermarket tabloid is a newspaper sold in supermarkets which contains reports about famous people's private lives, or other things that have happened which are often hard to believe.He had a copy of one of the supermarket tabloids, those weekly newspapers that offer readers a feast of gossip, scandal and believe-it-or-not phenomena.