0 a very large shop, usually outside the centre of town --
1 a very large store that is a type of supermarket and that is usually built outside of the centre of a town, selling food and other products such as clothes, furniture, and goods for the home: --
There is no way in which the small shopkeeper can possibly compete with some of the prices being offered at the hypermarkets at the moment.
This legislation makes no distinction between the corner shop and the hypermarket.
They choose to do their shopping at the supermarkets and the hypermarkets.
The growth of supermarket and hypermarket shopping is also a factor which ought now to be taken into account.
The particular problem of hypermarkets could be solved by the words "primary purpose"or"ancillary to" if there were an appropriate qualification.
I refer in particular, but not only in that respect, to those massive supermarket and hypermarket developments.
As part of the general desire for increased travel and traffic—no matter what the cost—hypermarkets have developed.
Apart from certain limited controls on hypermarkets and on excessive concentrations of retailing, we proposed to make no restraints.