List of supermarket chains in Asia
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  • Auchan
    Auchan
    Groupe Auchan SA is a French international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups with a presence in 12 countries and 175,000 employees....

  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

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  • JUSCO
    JUSCO
    is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

  • PARKnSHOP
    PARKnSHOP
    PARKnSHOP is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being Wellcome. PARKnSHOP operates more than 260 outlets in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China....

  • Wal-Mart
    Wal-Mart
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

  • Wumart
    Wumart
    Wumart Stores Inc. is a Chinese retail company that was founded in 1994. The company has about 430 stores, 330 of which are convenience stores and 100 of which are hypermarkets. The stores are located primarily in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin and the cities of Hebei province...


 Hong Kong

  • c!ty'super
    C!ty'super
    Citysuper is a high-end supermarket and retail chain based in Hong Kong. The chain currently has 3 brands and 9 stores in Hong Kong, 3 stores in Taipei, Taiwan, as well as 1 store in Shanghai, China...

  • JUSCO
    JUSCO
    is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

  • Marks & Spencer
    Marks & Spencer
    Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...

  • PARKnSHOP
    PARKnSHOP
    PARKnSHOP is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being Wellcome. PARKnSHOP operates more than 260 outlets in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China....

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    • International
  • Seibu Department Stores
    Seibu Department Stores
    is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd..-Japan:The Seibu...

  • Seiyu Group
    Seiyu Group
    or is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers, and department stores owned by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Its head office is in Akabane, Kita, Tokyo.-History:...

  • Sogo
    Sogo
    Sogo Co., Ltd. is a department store chain that operates an extensive network of branches in Japan. It once owned stores in locations as diverse as Beijing in China, Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Taipei in Taiwan, Jakarta, Medan, Bandung & Surabaya in Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Singapore,...

     (also considered a department store
    Department store
    A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...

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  • Uny
    Uny
    is a company that operates a chain of supermarkets in Japan. Most of the stores are mainly located in the Chūbu and Kantō regions , with an international branch in Cityplaza, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong operated by Uny Co., Ltd. with a brand name called APiTA. The company is headquartered in Inazawa,...

     APiTA
  • Wellcome
    Wellcome
    Wellcome is a supermarket chain owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings via its Dairy Farm subsidiary. The Wellcome supermarket chain is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being PARKnSHOP. Wellcome also operates supermarkets in Taiwan under the Wellcome name...


  • Beisia - Kantō region
    Kanto region
    The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 40 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain....

     and Kōshin'etsu region, mainly Gunma Prefecture
    Gunma Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located in the northwest corner of the Kantō region on Honshu island. Its capital is Maebashi.- History :The remains of a Paleolithic man were found at Iwajuku, Gunma Prefecture, in the early 20th century and there is a public museum there.Japan was without horses until...

  • Fuji - Shikoku
    Shikoku
    is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima...

     and San'yō region, mainly Ehime Prefecture
    Ehime Prefecture
    is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime prefecture was known as Iyo Province...

  • Kanesue
    Kanesue
    is a company that operates a chain of supermarkets in Japan. The company operates in Aichi, Mie, and Gifu. The company is headquartered in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture. This Member to the CGC Japan.-Early history:...

  • Kansai Super
    Kansai Super
    right|thumb|200px|A Kansai Super store located in Kōbe, Japan. is a supermarket chain named for the Kansai region of Japan where its stores are located. Its logo is a bird in the shape of a K...

  • Albis
    Albis (store)
    is a retail and wholesale company headquartered in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It is listed on the second tier of the Nagoya Stock Exchange . The name stands for "Active Leader with Best Information and Strategy"....

  • Maxvalu Tokai
    Maxvalu Tokai
    is a Japanese retail store chain. Until 2000 it was named Yaohan, but changed its name after its bankruptcy and takeover from the ÆON Group....

  • Seiyu Group
    Seiyu Group
    or is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers, and department stores owned by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Its head office is in Akabane, Kita, Tokyo.-History:...

  • Heiwado - Shiga
    Shiga Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan, which forms part of the Kansai region on Honshu Island. The capital is the city of Ōtsu.- History :Shiga was known as Ōmi Province or Gōshū before the prefectural system was established...

    , Kyoto
    Kyoto
    is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

     and Hokuriku region
    Hokuriku region
    The is located in the northwestern part of Honshū, the main island of Japan. It lies along the Sea of Japan within the Chūbu region. It is almost equivalent to Koshi Province and Hokurikudō area in pre-modern Japan....

  • Ito-Yokado
    Ito-Yokado
    is a Japanese General Merchandise Store, part of Seven & I Holdings Co. There are 174 Ito-Yokado stores operating in Japan. The group has expanded to China, where they formed a joint venture with Wangfujing Department Store and China Huafu Trade & Development Group Corp. to open one of five stores...

  • Izumi - Chūgoku region
    Chugoku region
    The , also known as the , is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It consists of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi. It has a population of about 7.8 million.- History :...

     and Northern Kyūshū
    Northern Kyushu
    is a subregion of Kyūshū.This northern region encompasses the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Ōita.-History:The northern region of Kyūshū was the first to be colonized by the Chinese and Koreans....

    , mainly Hiroshima Prefecture
    Hiroshima Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Hiroshima.- History :The area around Hiroshima was formerly divided into Bingo Province and Aki Province. This location has been a center of trade and culture since the beginning of Japan's recorded...

  • Izumiya
    Izumiya
    is a Japanese supermarket chain operated by . It operates the Qanat department stores as well as separate Izumiya grocery stores mainly in Kansai region. It also issues the Izumiya Club Cards, the Izumiya credit cards and the Izumiya ETC cards....

  • Lamu - discount store
  • Direx - discount store in Kyushu
    Kyushu
    is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....

    , San'yō region and Ryukyu Island area, mainly Saga Prefecture
    Saga Prefecture
    is located in the northwest part of the island of Kyūshū, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the prefecture is a region famous for producing ceramics and porcelain, particularly the towns of Karatsu, Imari, and Arita...

  • Oisix
    Oisix
    Oisix Inc. is a Natural & Organic food onlinegrocery in Japan. The company was founded in June 2000. The chief executive officer is Kohey Takashima. Oisix's FY2008 revenue is expected 6 billion JPY . The company's main site "Oisix.com" sees over 1 million Unique visitors each month...

  • Okuwa - Southern Kansai region and Tōkai region
    Tokai region
    The is a sub-region of the Chūbu region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name means "East sea" and comes from the Tōkaidō, one of the Edo Five Routes...

    , mainly Wakayama Prefecture
    Wakayama Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Wakayama.- History :Present-day Wakayama is mostly the western part of the province of Kii.- 1953 Wakayama Prefecture flood disaster :...

  • Seiyu
  • Sunny Mart - Shikoku
    Shikoku
    is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima...

    , mainly Kōchi Prefecture
    Kochi Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located on the south coast of Shikoku. The capital is the city of Kōchi.- History :Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as Tosa Province and was controlled by the Chosokabe clan in the Sengoku period and the Yamauchi family during the Edo period.- Geography...

  • Trial - discount store, mainly Kyushu
  • Uny
    Uny
    is a company that operates a chain of supermarkets in Japan. Most of the stores are mainly located in the Chūbu and Kantō regions , with an international branch in Cityplaza, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong operated by Uny Co., Ltd. with a brand name called APiTA. The company is headquartered in Inazawa,...

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  • Uoroku - regional chain in Niigata Prefecture
    Niigata Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Honshū on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata. The name "Niigata" literally means "new lagoon".- History :...

  • Valor - Chūbu region
    Chubu region
    The is the central region of Honshū, Japan's main island. Chūbu has a population estimate of 21,886,324 as of 2008.Chūbu, which means "central region", encompasses nine prefectures : Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, Yamanashi, and often Mie.It is located directly...

    , mainly Gifu Prefecture
    Gifu Prefecture
    is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu.Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendō...

  • Yamazawa - regional chain in Yamagata Prefecture
    Yamagata Prefecture
    -Fruit:Yamagata Prefecture is the largest producer of cherries and pears in Japan. A large quantity of other kinds of fruits such as grapes, apples, peaches, melons, persimmons and watermelons are also produced.- Demographics :...

     and Sendai area

  • MORE
    More
    More or Mores may refer to:* More , a family name, including a list of people with the surname-Computers:* MORE , a Mac OS outliner application* more , a shell command* MORE protocol, a routing protocol-Film:...

  • Adani
    Adani
    Adani Or عدني Arabic Said, refers to a kind of music that comes from Yemen across to Arabic Gulf Countries in the early 1970s by some Yemani artists such as Mohammed Jom'aa....

  • Bangalore Central
    Bangalore central
    Central brand has malls all over India. It is owned by Pantaloon Retail that also owns the Indian Big Bazaar supermarket chain. Central has outlets in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Vadodara, Gurgaon, Indore, Jaipur...

  • Big Apple
    Big Apple
    "The Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph...

  • Big Bazaar
    Big Bazaar
    Big Bazaar is a chain of hypermarket in India. Currently, there are 210 stores across 80 cities and towns in India. Big Bazaar is designed as an agglomeration of bazaars or Indian markets with clusters offering a wide range of merchandise including fashion and apparels, food products, general...

  • ebony
  • Egroceryshop
  • D Mart
  • Focus Mall & Focus hypermarket - Calicut
  • Food Bazaar
  • Hypercity
    HyperCity
    HyperCITY has 10 stores operational across 7 cities viz. Mumbai , Amritsar, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad & Hyderabad. It offers a wide range of product in categories like Fresh produce, Foods and Grocery, Home, Bakery, electronics, Furniture, Sports, Toys &...

  • life style
  • Gramina Super Market
  • Magna
  • Margin Free Market
    Margin Free Market
    Margin Free Market is a chain of speciality supermarkets in South India.During the past six years , a price increase of essential commodities by 100 to 200% became a regular feature in Kerala. Some of the citizens in Trivandrum City thought of organizing a forum which could help the consumers in...

  • Maveli Stores
    Maveli Stores
    Maveli Stores is a venture of the The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation .Under the Government programme of market intervention, pulses and spices are purchased and sold to the consumers at subsidised prices fixed by the Government. The Government of Kerala aids this operation by giving grants...

  • National Handloom
  • Nilgiris
    Nilgiris (supermarket)
    Nilgiris is a supermarket chain in South India. It is also one of the oldest supermarket chains in India with origins dating back to 1905 and hence its products are sold under the brand name of "Nilgiris 1905"...

  • Ratnadeep
  • Reliance Fresh
    Reliance Fresh
    Reliance Fresh is the convenience store format which forms part of the retail business of Reliance Industries of India which is headed by Mukesh Ambani. Reliance plans to invest in excess of Rs 25000 crores in the next 4 years in their retail division. The company already has in excess of 560...

  • Spinach
    Spinach
    Spinach is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae. It is native to central and southwestern Asia. It is an annual plant , which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions...

  • Spencers Retail
  • Subhiksha
    Subhiksha
    Subhiksha was an Indian retail chain with 1600 outlets selling groceries, fruits, vegetables, medicines and mobile phones. It began operations in 1997, and was closed down in 2009 owing to financial mismanagement and a severe cash crunch.- Early days :...

  • Star Bazaar (TATA Group)
  • Foodworld supermarket ltd.

  • Bromo Swalayan
  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

  • Giant
    Giant Hypermarket
    Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and UAE. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings .-History:...

  • Hero Supermarket
  • Hypermart
  • Foodmart
  • The FoodHall Formerly Sogo Supermarket
  • Kem Chicks
  • Yogya mostly located in West Java
  • Griya mostly located in West Java
  • Sinar Supermarket mostly located in East Java
  • Lotte Mart
    Lotte Mart
    Lotte Mart is a hypermarket in Asia that sells a variety of groceries, clothing, toys, electronics, and other goods. Lotte Mart is a division of the Lotte Co., Ltd. which is one of the most prevalent food and shopping services in South Korea and Japan. Lotte Mart, part of the Korean conglomerate...

     Formerly Makro
  • Borma
  • Sarinah

Refah Chain Stores Co.
Refah Chain Stores Co.
Refah Supermarkets is an Iranian supermarket chain based in Tehran. The establishment has currently 160 branches across the nation. Refah is carrying a wide assortment of goods in the lines of Food & Beverages Fresh Produce, Hygienic & Cosmetics, Home Appliances & Electronics , Clothing & Textiles...


Shahrvand Chain Stores Inc.
Shahrvand Chain Stores Inc.
Shahrvand Supermarkets is an Iranian supermarket chain based in Tehran. The establishment has currently 25 branches across in Tehran.Shahrvand, along with Refah supermarket, and Carrefour-owned Hyperstar Market, create the bulk of the Iranian relail industry....


Hyperstar Market
Carrefour
Carrefour
Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...


 Israel

  • Alef
  • ampm
    Ampm
    ampm is a convenience store chain with branches located in several U.S. states including Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, recently in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and in several countries worldwide, including Japan...

  • Blue Square
  • Clubmarket
  • Hazi Hinam
  • Hyper-Kol
  • Mega
  • Mister Zol
  • Rami Levi
    Rami Levi Hashikma Marketing
    Rami Levi Hashikma Marketing is the third largest Israeli retail supermarket chain, behind Shufersal Ltd. and Alon Holding–Blue Square Ltd., with annual revenues of NIS 1.81 billion . Founded in 1976 on Rehov Hashikma in the Mahane Yehuda Market district, Rami Levi was Israel's first...

  • Shefa Shuk
  • Super-Sol
  • Tiv Taam
  • Yesh
  • Zol Po

  • Costco
    Costco
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. it is the third largest retailer in the United States, where it originated, and the ninth largest in the world...

  • E-mart
    E-mart
    E-mart is the largest retailer in South Korea. There are 127 stores across the country. It was founded on 12 November 1993 by Shinsegae, and was the first discount retailer in South Korea....

  • Hanaro Mart
  • Lotte Mart
    Lotte Mart
    Lotte Mart is a hypermarket in Asia that sells a variety of groceries, clothing, toys, electronics, and other goods. Lotte Mart is a division of the Lotte Co., Ltd. which is one of the most prevalent food and shopping services in South Korea and Japan. Lotte Mart, part of the Korean conglomerate...

  • Tesco HomePlus
  • Mega Mart

  • 7-Eleven
    7-Eleven
    7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...

  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

  • Cold Storage
    Cold Storage (supermarket)
    Cold Storage is the second-largest supermarket chain in Singapore behind NTUC FairPrice, owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings.It operates 3 supermarket brands in Singapore and Malaysia; Cold Storage , Market Place and Shop N Save .-History:Established in 1903, Cold Storage started as a small...

  • Giant
    Giant Hypermarket
    Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and UAE. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings .-History:...

  • Isetan
    Isetan
    is a Japanese department store. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Isetan has branches throughout Japan and East Asia, including Bangkok, Jinan, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Tianjin and formerly in Hong Kong, London and Vienna....

  • JUSCO
    JUSCO
    is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

  • Pacific Hypermarket
  • Parkson
    Parkson
    Parkson is a popular department store company in Malaysia which offers items at a medium rate. Parkson was established in 1987 as one of the largest retail chains in Malaysia at that time...

  • Tesco
    Tesco
    Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...

  • Tesco Extra (formerly Makro
    Makro
    Makro is a Dutch chain of Warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. The first one opened in 1968 in Amsterdam. In the following years more stores opened in the Netherlands and in several other countries within Europe. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and...

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  • The Store
    The Store
    The Store is a 1932 novel by Thomas Sigismund Stribling. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933. It is the second book of the Vaidan trilogy, comprising The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral.-Introduction:...


  • Cash & Carry
    Cash & Carry
    Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice is a chain of American warehouse grocery stores located in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Cash & Carry runs 50 stores in April 2008. The company operates 10 stores in California, 2 stores in Idaho, 17 stores in Oregon, and 21 stores in Washington. The...

    /Uni-Mart
    Uni-Mart
    Uni-Mart is a Pennsylvania-based company that owns, operates and franchises hundreds of convenience stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States....

  • Cherry Foodarama
  • Ever Supermarket
  • Gaisano
    Gaisano
    Gaisano Inc. is one of the largest shopping mall chains in the Philippines, having 40 branches all in the Visayas and Mindanao region. The malls are managed by several groups...

  • Isetann
  • Landmark
    Landmark
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  • Puregold Price Club/S&R
  • Robinsons Supermarket
    Robinsons Supermarket
    Robinsons Supermarket is a supermaket chain in the Philippines a division of Robinsons Retail Group a subsidiary of J.G. Summit Holdings. It's competitorof several supermarket chains in the Philippines like SM, Rustans, Ever and other supermarket...

    /Ministop
    Ministop
    , a member of ÆON Group, operates the Ministop convenience store franchise chain in Japan. Unlike most other convenience stores in Japan, Ministop stores feature a kitchen that prepares sandwiches, snacks and take out bento boxes on demand, and has a seating area where customers can sit down and...

  • 7-Eleven
    7-Eleven
    7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...

  • Shopwise/Rustans
  • SM Supermarket
    SM Supermarket
    SM Supermarket is the food retail arm of SM Investments. It operates 28 branches across the Philippines.-History:Operated by Super Value, Inc., SM Supermarket established its first store in 1985 at the Ayala Center, Makati and outside Metro Manila in Iloilo City. It eventually expanded to 28...

    /Save More Market/SM Hypermarket
    SM Hypermarket
    SM Hypermarket was started by the Sy family back in the late '90s in response to the growing needs of the market for more convenience. The hypermarket, a new retail format of combining a supermarket with a department store providing one-stop shopping concept was newly accepted by Filipino...

    /Makro
    Makro
    Makro is a Dutch chain of Warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. The first one opened in 1968 in Amsterdam. In the following years more stores opened in the Netherlands and in several other countries within Europe. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and...

  • South Supermarket
  • Super 8 Grocery Warehouse
  • Walter Mart Supermarket

  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

     - French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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  • Cold Storage
    Cold Storage (supermarket)
    Cold Storage is the second-largest supermarket chain in Singapore behind NTUC FairPrice, owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings.It operates 3 supermarket brands in Singapore and Malaysia; Cold Storage , Market Place and Shop N Save .-History:Established in 1903, Cold Storage started as a small...

     (DFI Group
    Dairy Farm International Holdings
    Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is a retail company in Asia, with a legal base in Bermuda. A member of the Jardine Matheson Group, it is a leading pan-Asian retailer which processes food, wholesales food and personal hygiene products in the Pacific region and in China. Jardine Strategic,...

    ) - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain
  • Giant
    Giant Hypermarket
    Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and UAE. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings .-History:...

     (DFI Group
    Dairy Farm International Holdings
    Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is a retail company in Asia, with a legal base in Bermuda. A member of the Jardine Matheson Group, it is a leading pan-Asian retailer which processes food, wholesales food and personal hygiene products in the Pacific region and in China. Jardine Strategic,...

    ) - Malaysian chain
  • Isetan
    Isetan
    is a Japanese department store. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Isetan has branches throughout Japan and East Asia, including Bangkok, Jinan, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Tianjin and formerly in Hong Kong, London and Vienna....

     - Japanese
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

     chain
  • Jasons Market Place
    Market Place by Jasons
    Market Place by Jasons or Jasons Market Place is a high end chain supermarket in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, owned by Dairy Farm Group. It is the sister company of Wellcome.-History:...

     (DFI Group
    Dairy Farm International Holdings
    Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is a retail company in Asia, with a legal base in Bermuda. A member of the Jardine Matheson Group, it is a leading pan-Asian retailer which processes food, wholesales food and personal hygiene products in the Pacific region and in China. Jardine Strategic,...

    ) - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain
  • NTUC Fairprice
    NTUC FairPrice
    NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative is a supermarket chain based in Singapore and the largest in the country. The company is a co-operative of the National Trades Union Congress or NTUC. The group has 100 supermarkets across the island, with over 50 outlets of Cheers convenience stores island-wide...

     - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain
  • Prime Supermarket - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain
  • Sheng Siong
    Sheng Siong
    Sheng Siong is a supermarket and hypermarket chain based in Singapore.-History:Sheng Siong was founded by PBM Mr. Lim Hock Chee, now its CEO. After winding up his stall selling pork in 1985, Lim founded Sheng Siong's foremost operation in a single shophouse unit. Sheng Siong has evolved since into...

     - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain
  • Shop N Save (DFI Group
    Dairy Farm International Holdings
    Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is a retail company in Asia, with a legal base in Bermuda. A member of the Jardine Matheson Group, it is a leading pan-Asian retailer which processes food, wholesales food and personal hygiene products in the Pacific region and in China. Jardine Strategic,...

    ) - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     chain

 Sri Lanka

  • Cargills (Ceylon) PLC
  • Keells Super (Jay Kay Marketing Services)
  • Laugfs Sunup Supermarkets (pvt) Ltd
  • Arpico Super Centres
  • Lanka Sathosa

  • 7-Eleven
    7-Eleven
    7-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenience stores, operating under Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd, which in turn is owned by Seven & I Holdings Co...

  • BigC
    BigC
    Big C, or Big C Supercenter , is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the leading hypermarket chain in Thailand, managed under the umbrella of Groupe Casino...

     (a part of Groupe-Casino and Central Retail Corporation) group, includes
    • BigC Supercenter
  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

     (Has been taken over by Group Casino and all Carrefour branches are renamed Big C Extra)
  • Central Food Retail (a part of Central Retail Corporation) group, includes
    • Central Food Hall (New brand & concept in Dec 2005)
    • Tops Market (New brand & concept in Apr 2006)
    • Tops Daily (New brand & concept in May 2006)
    • Tops Super (New brand & concept in Feb 2006)
  • FamilyMart
    FamilyMart
    is a convenience store franchise chain first opened in Japan on September 1, 1981. FamilyMart is Japan's third largest convenience store chain, behind 7-Eleven and Lawson, and the largest chain store in South Korea. FamilyMart is owned and overseen by FamilyMart Company, Limited...

  • Foodland
    Foodland (supermarket)
    Foodland Supermarket Co. Ltd. is a company operating Supermarket in Thailand.The name "Foodland," being fairly generic in nature, appears as all or part of the name of countless unaffiliated grocery stores throughout the world, from Australia to Canada and the United StatesFor articles about other...

  • Isetan
    Isetan
    is a Japanese department store. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Isetan has branches throughout Japan and East Asia, including Bangkok, Jinan, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Tianjin and formerly in Hong Kong, London and Vienna....

  • Jusco
    JUSCO
    is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

  • Makro
    Makro
    Makro is a Dutch chain of Warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. The first one opened in 1968 in Amsterdam. In the following years more stores opened in the Netherlands and in several other countries within Europe. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and...

  • Tesco Lotus

Defunct supermarkets

  • Auchan
    Auchan
    Groupe Auchan SA is a French international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups with a presence in 12 countries and 175,000 employees....

     (Branches in Thailand now changed and acquired by BigC
    BigC
    Big C, or Big C Supercenter , is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the leading hypermarket chain in Thailand, managed under the umbrella of Groupe Casino...

    )
  • Central Food Retail, includes
    • Tops Supermarket (Branches now changed to Tops Super)
  • Central Retail Corporation, includes
  • Food Lion
    Food Lion
    Food Lion LLC is an American grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina that operates approximately 1,300 supermarkets in 11 Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states as well as Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia under the Food Lion, Harveys Supermarket, Bloom, Bottom Dollar...

     (Branches in Thailand now acquired by Central Food Retail, changed to Tops Supermarket)
  • The Mall Group
    The Mall Group
    The Mall Group is one of Thailand's largest mall operators. Its main rival is the Central Group. The Mall's brands include "The Mall", The Emporium and Siam Paragon...

    , includes
  • Seiyu Group
    Seiyu Group
    or is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers, and department stores owned by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Its head office is in Akabane, Kita, Tokyo.-History:...

    , includes
    • Seiyu
      Seiyu
      Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

       (Branches in Thailand now acquired by Jusco
      JUSCO
      is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

       Thailand)
  • Shop N Save (Branches in Singapore now changed and acquired by Shabell)

  • Beğendik
  • BİM
  • Canerler
  • Çankaya
  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

  • ChampionSA
  • DiaSA
  • Endi
  • Gima
  • İsmar
  • Kiler
  • Makro
    Makro
    Makro is a Dutch chain of Warehouse clubs, also called cash and carries. The first one opened in 1968 in Amsterdam. In the following years more stores opened in the Netherlands and in several other countries within Europe. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro extended its business to the Americas and...

  • Maxi
  • Metro
    Metro Cash and Carry
    -Romania:METRO Cash and Carry was one of the first international food and non-food retail chains to enter the Romanian market, opening its first store in 1996 in Bucharest, near Henri Coandă International Airport....

  • Migros
    Migros Türk
    Ramstore/Migros Türk Ticaret A.Ş. is one of the biggest chain of supermarkets in Turkey.Together via Migros supermarkets, Şok discount stores, international Ramstore shopping centers, online shopping, wholesale stores, and mobile sales units, Migros Türk serves an estimated 160 million customers...

  • Mortan
  • Özdilek
  • PM
  • Stop
  • Şok
  • Tansaş
  • Tesco Kipa
  • Yimpaş

  • Abela Supermarket
  • Abu Dhabi Cooperative Society
  • Al Ain Cooperative Society
  • Al Madina
  • Al Maya Lal's Supermarket
  • Al Mushrif Cooperative Society
  • Bani Yas Cooperative Society
  • Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

  • Choithram Supermarket
  • Emirates Market
  • Géant
    Géant
    Géant part of French retailing giant Groupe Casino, is a European hypermarket chain and is based in France.Géant has about 113 hypermarkets all over the world. The concept is to have all kinds of items available under one roof - from common household items and food to computers and home theater...

  • Hyperpanda
  • Le Marché
  • LIFCO Supermarket
  • Grand Hypermarkets - Regency Group
  • Grand Express Supermarkets
  • Lulu Supermarket
  • Safestway
  • Shaheen Supermarket
  • Spinneys
    Spinneys
    Spinneys is a high-end supermarket chain in the Middle East which begun as railway provision merchants, and expanded to a grocery firm importing British Empire goods to the Mandate Palestine...

  • Union Co-op

  • Co.op Mart, the leading retailer in HCMC and in South Vietnam (30 stores in 2007)
  • BigC
    BigC
    Big C, or Big C Supercenter , is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the leading hypermarket chain in Thailand, managed under the umbrella of Groupe Casino...

    , a part of Groupe-Casino (7 stores in 2007)
  • Citimart (17 stores in 2007)
  • Fivimart (9 stores in 2007)
  • Intimex, based in the North (10 stores in 2007)
  • Maximark, based in the South (6 stores in 2007)
  • Parkson
  • minor chains: Savimart, Hapro Mart, Hanoi Starmart, Marko...


The top 5 chains by turnover for 2007 are: Co.op Mart, Big C, Citimart, Maximark, Fivimart.
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