Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket
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Pick 'n Pay hypermarkets are a chain of hypermarkets in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia owned by Coles Group. There are two stores located at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills. The stores are at least 13,000 m² in size and sell fresh food, groceries, clothing, white goods, toys, sporting goods and similar items.
The format is similar to that pioneered in the United States by Wal Mart.
The Aspley store was established by South African retailer Pick 'n Pay in the 1980s but was purchased by Coles Group (then Coles Myer) in the 1990s. The Sunnybank Hills store was previously a Super Kmart store and was converted to a Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket in 1998.
During the late 1980s there was also a store in Canberra. One of its features was touch television store guides.
Coles Myer operated a similar format of a Coles Supermarket and a K-Mart in the one open plan building on various sites throughout Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These stores remain, but with walls dividing the two sections.
In late 2006, the Coles Group announced that it would rebrand all K-Mart stores as "Coles", and sell the current product lines of K-Mart and Coles Supermarkets on many of its current retail sites. Such a move would essentially be replacing existing stores with Pick 'n Pay Hypermarkets, but using a different name. In such an eventuality, the existing Hypermarkets would likely lose their current branding.
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