A superette is an alternative name for a compact

supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earli ...

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

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with no stem word.

Usage

The word is used in some places, particularly in New Hampshire, Hawaii, New York City, Boston, Minnesota, and the North Island of New Zealand, 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 Serbian 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