A superette is an alternative name for a compact

supermarket 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 lim ...

or "mini-mart".

Etymology

In French, the ''ette'' ending conveys the idea of a smaller version of a supermarket ('). However, supermarket has been shortened to ''super'' - leaving ''superette'' as an unusual example of a

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and suffix with no stem word.

Usage

The word is used in some places, particularly in New Hampshire,

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, and the North Island of

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, and is a regular expression in the French language. In France, convenience stores are usually called supérettes when those are the sole convenience stores of a small town, to portray how their supplied inventory is similar to supermarkets' but their stocking capacity is reduced to the demand of the town. It is also used in

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n legislation ( sr, supereta/суперета) to designate grocery stores with a net area between 200 and 400 m².

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Retail formats Convenience stores {{Retailing-stub