Save A Lot Food Stores Ltd. is an American discount supermarket chain store headquartered in St. Ann, Missouri, in Greater St. Louis. It has about 900 independently owned and operated stores across 32 states in the United States with over $4 billion in annual sales.
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Save A Lot store in Murphy, North Carolina, in April 2023
Save A Lot store in Oxon Hill, Maryland, in July 2008
Former Shaw's store rebranded as a Save A Lot in Waterbury, Connecticut, in February 2011
A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earlier grocery stores, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market. In everyday United States usage, however, "grocery store" is often used to mean "supermarket".
Astor Market in New York, one predecessor of the modern supermarket, operated from 1915 to 1917.
A supermarket in Sweden, 1941
Consumers shopping for produce and fruit, 2012
S-market store with 24/7 service in Klaukkala, Finland, 2022