Warehouse store

A warehouse store or warehouse supermarket is a food and grocery retailer that operates stores geared toward offering deeper discounted prices than a traditional supermarket.

These stores offer a no-frills experience and warehouse shelving stocked well with merchandise intended to move at higher volumes.

Warehouse stores can also offer a selection of merchandise sold in bulk.

Often, certain customer service niceties, like the bagging of groceries, are not done by store employees; this helps reduce overall cost.

Many warehouse stores are operated by traditional grocery chains both as a way to attract lower income, value conscious consumers and to maximize their buying power in order to lower costs at their mainstream stores.