PT Indomarco Prismatama or Indomaret (short for Indonesia Market Retail) is a chain of retail
convenience store
A convenience store, convenience shop, corner store or corner shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as coffee, groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery ticket ...
s from Indonesia, with over 18,000 stores across Indonesia. It is the first and largest chain of this kind of store in Indonesia. Indomaret is predominantly owned by Indoritel and headquartered in
Jakarta
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Indomaret is a minimarket network that provides daily needs. It has a store area of about 200m
2. The first official Indomaret store was opened in Ancol, North Jakarta in November 1988. By 2014, Indomaret had 10,600 outlets. 60% of the total outlets are self-owned and franchised outlets while the remaining 40% are company-owned, scattered in towns in Greater Jakarta,
Sumatra
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(except
West Sumatra
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, where the permit was banned for the protection of small traders),
Java
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,
Madura
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,
Lesser Sunda Islands
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Kalimantan
Kalimantan () is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area. The non-Indonesian parts of Borneo are Brunei and East Malaysia. In Indonesia, "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo.
In 2019, ...
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Maluku Islands
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, and
Sulawesi
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In Jakarta, there are about 488 outlets.
Indomaret stores are easily found in residential areas, office buildings, and public facilities due to the placement location of outlets being based on the motto "simple and frugal" (Indonesian: ''mudah dan hemat''). Indomaret sells more than 5,000 types of food products and non-food items.
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Convenience stores
A convenience store, convenience shop, corner store or corner shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as coffee, groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery ticke ...
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