Albania ;Defunct: •
Carrefour – 1 hypermarket in Tirana •
Mercator – 1 hypermarket in Tirana
Andorra •
E.Leclerc Austria Austria in Vienna-
Floridsdorf •
Interspar ;Defunct: •
Carrefour Belarus • Almi • Euroopt •
Gippo (Гиппо) • Korona The
Louis Delhaize Group has seven
Cora throughout
Wallonia and
Brussels. The largest hypermarket in
Belgium is the Cora store in
Anderlecht (
Brussels) with a size of 15 000 m2. The second largest is the Carrefour Planet store in the
B-Park shopping center in
Bruges (
Flanders), which has a size of 14 000 m2. •
Carrefour •
Cora Bosnia and Herzegovina •
Bingo •
Konzum •
Mercator ;Defunct brands: • Drvopromet DP – renamed
Mercator in 2011, then
Konzum in 2014, and again
Mercator in 2017 • VF-Komerc – renamed
Konzum in 2007
Bulgaria •
HIT •
Kaufland Croatia •
Interspar •
Kaufland •
Konzum ;Defunct brands: •
Hipermarketi Coop – renamed
Interspar in 2010 •
Mercator – renamed
Konzum in 2014
Cyprus •
AlphaMega •
Sklavenitis ;Defunct: •
Carrefour – stores taken over by Sklavenitis
Czech Republic , Czech Republic •
Albert •
Globus •
Kaufland •
Tesco ;Defunct: •
Carrefour – stores taken over by
Tesco •
Interspar (Spar Group) – in 2015, stores taken over by
Ahold and rebranded Albert
Denmark , Denmark Currently,
Bilka is the biggest chain of hypermarkets (operated by
Dansk Supermarked); the second biggest chain was
Kvickly Xtra, which were converted in 2009 to the regular Kvickly supermarkets. Opening of new hypermarkets has decreased, as of 2010, due to restrictions on store sizes to protect the stores in city centers. •
Bilka Estonia •
Maxima •
Prisma •
Rimi Hyper •
Selver Finland hypermarket in
Helsinki, Finland •
K-Citymarket • • •
Prisma ;Defunct: • • •
France hypermarket in
Coquelles near
Calais, France hypermarket in
Allier at the shopping mall of Mondeville 2 in
Normandy, France In France, hypermarkets are successful, and today, there are over 1000 hypermarkets in the country.
Carrefour opened the first French and European hypermarket in 1963, in
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois near
Paris, and has 222 hypermarkets, as of 2013. The largest hypermarket in France is the Carrefour store in
Villiers-en-Bière,
Seine-et-Marne (77) in the
Île-de-France region, with an area of 25 000 m2.
E.Leclerc opened its first hypermarket store in 1964 in
Landerneau, near
Brest, and is now the dominant hypermarket chain in France, with 489 hypermarkets. Internationally, the French Carrefour is still the largest hypermarket chain in terms of size, and second-largest (after
Walmart) in terms of revenue. The other chains with the most hypermarkets in France are Géant (120 hypermarkets), Auchan (134) and Hyper U (61). In Corsica, hypermarkets are not as successful as in the rest of France; the only hypermarkets available in Corsica are Carrefour,
Hyper U,
E.Leclerc,
Géant and
Casino. •
Auchan •
Carrefour •
E.Leclerc •
Hyper U •
Intermarché Hyper •
Migros MMM ;Defunct: •
Continent – all became
Carrefour in 2000 •
Eroski •
Euromarché • Hyper Cedico •
HyperChampion •
Mammouth – The first Mammouth store opened in 1969 near
Troyes, and the last store closed in
Lacroix-Saint-Ouen on 3 October 2009 after a 10-year delay to close the last store, as it was considered too small for an
Auchan hypermarket, but too large for an
ATAC supermarket. •
Rallye – first store opened in
Brest in 1968; last closed in 2002 •
Record – operated from 1967 to 2008; the last Record store in
Grosbliederstroff subsisted up until 3 June 2022, when it was converted into a
Cora. • Super Suma – became
ATAC •
Géant Casino – most of its activities in continental France were sold off by
Groupe Casino in 2023 to various other retailers, mainly
Intermarché and
Auchan. The 26 remaining stores that have not been taken over are set to permanently close on 30 September 2024. Four Géant stores are still active, all located in
Corsica. •
Cora – bought by
Carrefour in July 2023. All stores are set to be converted into Carrefour hypermarkets by 17 November 2024.
Germany hypermarket in
Cologne, Germany In
Germany, the biggest hypermarket brands are Real (
METRO AG),
Kaufland (which belongs to Lidl), and
Marktkauf (which is a brand of AVA, which in turn belongs to
EDEKA). However, for various reasons, such as the strong competition by more focused discounters such as
Aldi and
Lidl, as well as legal restrictions on store size,
pricing policy, and
opening times, the hypermarket concept is not as widespread in Germany as in other countries. •
E-Center •
Famila •
Globus •
HIT •
Kaufland •
Marktkauf •
Real •
Rewe Center ;Defunct: •
Extra Future Store – first store opened in 2003 in
Rheinberg; taken over by
Real in 2008, which converted it to new Real Future Store hypermarkets •
Interspar – all stores were taken over by Wal-Mart in 1998 •
Toom – rebranded to Rewe Center in 2014 •
Wal-Mart – moved into Germany in 1997 by taking over Wertkauf stores, followed by Interspar stores the year after, but failed by trying to use its American approach in Germany; in 2006 the remaining 85 hypermarkets were changed to Real hypermarkets. •
Wertkauf – first store opened in 1958 in
Karlsruhe, its
Munich store was the largest hypermarket in Europe when it opened in 1968; all stores were taken over by Wal-Mart in 1997
Greece •
Grand Masoutis •
Sklavenitis ;Defunct: •
Carrefour – bought by
Sklavenitis Hungary hypermarket in
Makó The biggest hypermarket presence is
Tesco. Other hypermarkets include
Auchan,
Metro (Cash & Carry) and
InterSpar, which operate several hypermarkets in the country. •
Auchan •
Interspar •
Tesco ;Defunct: •
Cora (acquired by
Auchan)
Iceland •
Costco •
Hagkaup Ireland in
Clonmel, Ireland •
Dunnes Stores •
Tesco Ireland (Tesco Extra stores)
Italy hypermarket in
Bolzano, Italy In Italy and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland, the term is
ipermercati. •
Bennet •
Carrefour •
Spazio Conad •
Ipermercato Crai •
Esselunga Superstore •
Il Gigante •
Interspar /
Iperspar •
Iper La Grande I •
Ipercoop •
IperSimply / (
Auchan) (closed in 2020 and sold to Conad) •
Italmark •
Sidis (Ipersidis, Sidis Superstore, Oasi, Migross Superstore, La Girandola, Decò Superstore, L'IperConveniente, MioMercato Superstore and Iper MioMercato) •
Super Spaccio Alimentare ;Defunct: •
Auchan City – sold to
Coop Italia in 2017 and rebranded
Ipercoop •
Billa Superstore – closed in 2013 and rebranded
Conad and
Carrefour • CittàMercato – rebranded
Auchan • Cityper – rebranded
IperSimply •
E.Leclerc – rebranded
Conad in 2014 due to the end of the joint-venture between the two chains •
IperCoopca – closed in 2015 due to Coopca's failure •
IperLeDune – rebranded
Interspar in 2015 •
IperPellicano – closed in 2013 due to Lombardini Holding's bankruptcy •
IperStanda – rebranded
Billa Superstore in 2010 • Megasidis – sold to
Auchan in 2012 and then to
Coop Italia in 2017
Latvia •
Maxima •
Rimi Hyper ;Defunct: •
Prisma Lithuania hypermarket near
Vilnius, Lithuania There are several hypermarkets, like the homegrown chain of
Maxima supermarkets in
Lithuania, which range in sizes from neighborhood convenience stores to giant supercenters or hypermarkets that stock over 65,000
SKUs. The chain has 499 (as of 2013) stores open throughout Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria (branded as T-Market) and Poland (branded as Aldik Nova). •
Maxima •
Norfa •
Rimi Hyper ;Defunct: •
Prisma Luxembourg •
Auchan •
Cactus •
Cora Malta • Pavi Supermarket (1 hypermarket)
Moldova •
Kaufland Monaco •
Carrefour (1 hypermarket)
Netherlands In the
Netherlands hypermarkets were not a success; there were several attempts of retailers like
Ahold and
SHV but they all eventually failed. In 1971,
Schuitema opened their first Dutch hypermarkets,
Famila and
Ahold with Miro in
Vlissingen. In 1973,
SHV Holdings opened Trefcenter. Shortly after, Maxis was created by
De Bijenkorf. However, all these hypermarkets failed, and all closed in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, the American chain
A&P started operating supermarkets and several hypermarkets by taking over old Maxis stores. The A&P chain wasn't very successful.
C1000 took over the stores in 2000–2003, and the hypermarkets were converted to C1000 supermarkets. Since 2006, the German chain
Famila (currently operating hypermarkets in the north of
Germany and
Italy) has tried to return in the Netherlands by opening a Dutch hypermarket in
Emmen and then expanding in a few years to about 25 hypermarkets between 4,500 and 7,000 square meters. J. Bünting Beteiligungs AG from Leer (Germany) had therefore opened an office in
Drachten. However, as of 2013 there were still no Famila stores in the country. On March 27, 2013, the largest supermarket of the Netherlands was opened by
Jumbo in the city of
Breda, called Jumbo Foodmarkt. With around 6,000 square meters, this store can be considered a hypermarket, but does not offer non-food products, which is unlike most hypermarkets. The second Jumbo Foodmarkt was planned to open with a size of 7,000 square meters in the unfinished Focus-U-Park
shopping center of 30,000 square meters in
Steenwijk. However, permits for construction of the Focus U Park were retracted in 2020. •
Albert Heijn XL (2,800–4,500 m2) •
Jumbo Foodmarkt (6,000–8,000 m2) ;Defunct brands: •
A&P Hypermarkt •
Famila •
Maxis •
Miro North Macedonia ;Defunct: •
Carrefour – 1 hypermarket closed in 2016
Norway There are Coop Obs! owned by
Coop Norge, which operates 24 hypermarkets through the country. Coop Norge also owns three Smart Club outlets (
Warehouse club). Other hypermarkets include EuroSpar, a hypermarket brand of
Spar, and ICA AB, with ICA Maxi stores. •
Coop Obs! •
Eurospar •
Smart Club ;Defunct: •
Kvickly Xtra (defunct since 2010; earlier known as Obs!) •
ICA Maxi (defunct since 2012)
Poland in
Wrocław, Poland in
Piaseczno, Poland store in
Elbląg, Poland hypermarket store in
New Prokocim,
Kraków in Poland •
Auchan •
bi1 •
Carrefour •
E.Leclerc •
Kaufland ;Defunct: •
Real – acquired by
Auchan in 2012 •
Tesco Portugal In
Portugal, there are a considerable number of hypermarket chains in operation, including
Continente (the biggest and the first Portuguese chain to go international),
Auchan,
Pingo Doce,
Lidl and
Intermarché. Most of these chains also operate supermarkets and smaller stores. •
Auchan •
Continente (
Sonae group) •
E.Leclerc •
Intermarché •
Pingo Doce (
Jerónimo Martins group)
Romania •
Auchan •
Carrefour •
Cora •
Kaufland ;Defunct: •
Real – acquired by
Auchan in 2012
Russia •
Auchan (Ашан) •
Globus •
Karusel (Карусель) •
Lenta (Лента) •
Liniya (Линия) •
Magnit (Russia's largest retailer) •
Nash Hypermarket (Наш Гипермаркет) •
OK (О'Кей) •
Prisma •
Spar •
Vester (Вестер) ;Defunct: •
Real – acquired by
Auchan in 2012
Serbia •
DIS •
Mercator •
Roda •
SuperVero (Veropoulos) •
Tempo Centar (Delhaize) ;Defunct: •
Tuš Slovakia •
Hypernova •
Kaufland •
Tesco ;Defunct: •
Carrefour Slovenia •
E.Leclerc •
Interspar (Spar Group) •
Mercator •
Tuš Spain •
Alcampo (
Auchan) •
Carrefour •
E.Leclerc •
Eroski •
Hipercor ;Defunct: •
Continente – rebranded to Carrefour •
Sabeco – rebranded to Alcampo
Sweden •
City Gross •
Costco •
Stora Coop •
ICA Maxi
Switzerland There are currently two chains operating hypermarkets in the country.
Coop Switzerland owns 13 hypermarkets throughout the West, with the biggest stores situated in
Geneva and
Fribourg. The
Migros chain has 11 MMM hypermarkets, including some in
Lausanne,
Basel, and two in France which are both near
Geneva, one in
Thoiry and
Étrembières. Until 22 March 2013,
Casino-Magro had several HyperCasino hypermarkets in Switzerland until the bankruptcy of the Magro group. •
Coop •
Migros (MMM) ;Defunct: •
Carrefour •
HyperCasino Turkey •
Carrefour (acquired by Big C in Jan 2011) •
Migros Türk (5M MİGROS) and many other local hypermarkets ;Defunct •
Jusco (replaced by Max Value) •
Real Ukraine •
Auchan •
Novus ;Defunct •
Real – acquired by
Auchan United Kingdom The largest chains in the UK are Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's, which all operate hypermarkets in the country. •
Asda •
Sainsbury's •
Tesco Extra ;Defunct •
Carrefour – first Carrefour store opened in the 1970s; UK business was sold to
Gateway/
Somerfield in 1990 and later was sold to
Asda •
Sainsbury's Savacentre – joint ventures between
Sainsbury's and
BHS, later rebranded Sainsbury's Superstores ==North America==