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• n  a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods

• Tired of seeing shoppers migrate to Wal-Mart and Target for buying groceries, traditional supermarkets in southern California like Vons, Ralphs, and Stater Bros.
• Last year's fermented soybean (natto) diet emptied supermarket shelves.
• But the supermarket industry suffers from especially tight profit margins and is thus particularly risk-averse, so supermarkets' entry into low-income neighborhoods has been slow.

News & Articles

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• Car Crashes into Supermarket, Sends 1 to the Hospital
  SACRAMENTO— A car that crashed into the Welco Supermarket knocked over a high-end liquor display and sent one person to the hospital. The crash happened just after 4 p.m. at the Fruitridge Boulevard store. Inside, the wall of the store …
  June 19, 2013 - FOX40 Sacramento
• Nojaim supermarket in Syracuse gets tax breaks for $2.7 million remodel and expansion
  The supermarket is eligible for tax exemptions because it is located in a distressed area of the city.
  June 18, 2013 - The Post-Standard
• Supermarket burglary named Crime of Week
  A burglary on the night of June 5 at David’s Supermarket on Lipan Highway in Thorp Spring is the Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week. Approximately $100 worth of cigarrettes were stolen. Entry was made by force through a glass door. Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 817-573-TIPS, or go online (hoodcountycrimestoppers.com). You can also text your tip, including “tip 129? in the ...
  June 17, 2013 - Hood County News

Quotes

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• Fred Baron in FOXNews
  Late Friday, Dallas-based attorney Fred Baron, former national finance chairman for Edwards, said in a statement he decided on his own to "help two friends and former colleagues rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it...
• Bil Keane in News1130
  She was the inspiration for all of my success,Bil Keane, 85, told The Associated Press from his home in Paradise Valley on Sunday. "When the cartoon first appeared, she looked so much like Mommy that if she was in the supermarket pushing...
• Barnaby Joyce in The Australian
  Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce yesterday explained it thus: "What someone might say to their lover in the heat of passion . . . should be entirely different to what you say to the lady checking out your groceries in the supermarket."