PUBLIC MALLS OF ILOCOS NORTE

HISTORY OF SAVEMORE SUPERMARKET:

              

            1999 – The first Savemore Market was opened in Riverbanks Mall, Marikina 

  

     2003 – Savemore Market opened in first provincial store in Elizabeth Mall, Cebu 

      2004 – Continous expansion in Metro Manila is soon through Savemore’s 3rd store in Festival Mall, Alabang

    2006-2007 – Savemore opens 3 provincial stores in Jaro, Iloilo, Angono and Morong Rizal 

   2008 – Savemore opens 5 store nationwide: Savemore Savers Square Center Taft, Savemore in Parkmall Cebu, Savemore Nagtahan, Savemore Tanay, Savemore North Edsa Annex 

   2009 – Seeing the growing need for community stores, SM expanded its operations rapidly with 13 new stores: 

Savemore Mezza

Savemore Laong laan

Savemore P. Tuazon

Savemore Del Monte

Savemore Amigo Mall

Savemore Mega Center

Savemore Taft

Savemore Broadway

Savemore Anonas

Savemore Libertad

Savemore Novaliches

Savemore Visayas Ave

Savemore Solano

2010 – Savemore West Kamias Savemore Mendez, Tagaytay

Savemore Legaspi, Baliuag, Bulacan

Savemore Pasong TamoSavemore SatolanSavemore MalabonSavemore Bacolod EastSavemore Market CitySavemore AgoraSavemore Cagayan De Oro 

• Savemore Market provides value for money to the shopper through competitive pricing and promotions.

• Savemore Market brings convenience to the shopper and affords her to save on transportation costs through its proximity to barangays, subdivisions and places work.

• It has been noted to increase the quality of life within the area by improving roads and access to public transportation, land appreciation and improving the quality of products offered by other markets within the same vicinity.

• Increase in employment opportunities (average of 250 jobs) are brought in the community where Savemore is Located.

• Shop owners that adapt to the changing needs of the community continue to thrive and improve the quality of their products upon savemore’s entry to the community.

   Savemore stores complement the regular SM Supermarket as it caters to shopper’s last minute purchases and their day-to-day budget. Savemore Market offers a more convenient way to shop as it provides not just the freshest food items but also grocery items, as early as 8am daily (in most branches). What’s more, it’s located just around the corner.
     

  Savemore Market shoppers can expect the same standards in food retail and the same offers found in SM. Service is even more personalized for the community shopper in a Savemore store.

  SAVEMORE MARKET: SM QUALITY RIGTH AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

    Savemore Market is a chain of neighborhood grocery stores under the SM Food Retail Group (other Food Retail formats under SM are SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket and Makro).These Savemore stores are located outside an SM mall to bring the SM shopping experience closer to where shoppers live and work. Savemore Market’s tagline is At your Service! As it takes pride in excellent customer service and in providing the shopper’s daily needs.

   The compact size of Savemore stores makes it easier for patrons to complete their shopping activity in a shorter amount of time. Despite the smaller space, Savemore Market continues to offer a wide variety of products including a full line of of groceries and a wide range of fresh meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables and ready to cook items.

ECONOMIC IMPACT

The presence of Savemore Market creates economic benefits to both the shopper and its community:

MODERN WET MARKET

Savemore Market makes it convenient for shoppers to shop leisurely for meat, poultry, seafood, fruits and vegetables in a clean and air-conditioned environment. Shoppers can early just to get the morning catch. 

IN ADDITION TO HISTORY

   Operated by Super Value, Inc., SM Supermarket established its first store in 1985 at the Ayala Center, Makati and outside Metro Manilain Iloilo City. In 1998, SM Supermarket introduced stand-alone independent neighborhood stores – the SaveMore Markets.

    SaveMore Market is a chain of neighborhood grocery stores under the SM Food Retail Group (other Food Retail formats under SM are SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket and Makro). These Savemore stores are located outside an SM mall to give easier access to shoppers. In 2012, A Makro store in Bangkal, Davao City will be changed to savemore market by March 15, 2012.

 In addition to Savemore, Savemore Laoag opened at 3:00 in the afternoon of December 2012.

http://www.smsupermarket.com/smsupermarket/save_more.php

*this is the reference wherein we get the information of savemore's history.

HOW DID PUREGOLD BEGAN?

           

Puregold Price Club, Inc. (PSE : PGOLD) is a chain of supermarkets in the Philippines established in 1998.

            In began in 1998 when Puregold opened its first branch in Mandaluyong City. Presently, it has grown into a retail chain with more than50 stores nationwide.

            In 2012, Puregold Price club Inc. acquired Parco. Over 19 operating outlets were purchased and converted to Puregold.

            Puregold is planning to open more stores in 2012 to upgrade sales growth target.

In 2012, the shareholders of the retail chain Puregold have approved the merger of the other two operating units into the parent company, consolidating Puregold's supermarket businesses under the publicly listerd supermarket operator.

            On February 2013, global investment firm Capital Group Companies (CGC) bought 5.4 % outstanding stock of Puregold.    

Puregold Laoag is somewhat small from a bird’s eye view but actually huge to shoppers because if you enter , you can see a wide section of different products in every sides of the mall just like drugstore, gadgets, LBC PADALA and others. When you go up stares you will see the supermarket, different food chains and play ground for the kids. this mall was good because ones top shop.

                       

HYPERMARKET LAOAG

In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full groceries lines and general merchandise. In theory, hypermarkets allow customers to satisfy all their routine shopping needs in one trip.

Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores, typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low-margin sales. A typical Wal-Mart Supercenter covers anywhere from 150,000 square feet (14,000 m²) to 235,000 square feet (21,800 m²) and a typical Carrefour covers 20,000 m² (210,000 square feet). They generally have more than 200,000 different brands of merchandise available at any one time. Because of their large footprints, many hypermarkets choose suburban or out-of-town locations that are easily accessible by automobile.Which today are very large stores which combine a supermarket and a department store, opened its first one-stop shopping center in 1934. It included a grocery store alongside adrugstore plus home products, off-street parking, gas station, and—eventually—clothing. In 1962, Meijer opened its first hypermarket in Grand Rapids, Michigan, entitled "Thrifty Acres", and calling the format a "Supercenter", and in Europe by Carrefour, which opened its first such store in 1963 at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France. In the Americas, the format remained in regional use only until the late 1980s. The now defunct retailer Steinberg operated four hypermarkets in Québec under the name Steinberg Beaucoup from 1974 until early the 1990s.  

The hypermarket concept spread in the United States in 1987, both with the introduction of stores by Carrefour, and by major American chains.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the three major discount store chains in the United States—Wal-Mart Kmar and Target—started developing discount stores in the hypermarket format. Wal-Mart introduced Hypermart USA in 1987 and later Wal-Mart Supercenter, and Kmart developed Super Kmart.

In the early 1990s, hypermarkets selling fuel begin to make inroads in the United States. H-E-B was among the stores selling fuel in the Southwest. The concept was first introduced to the United States in the 1960s when a number of supermarket chains and retailers like Sears tried to sell fuel, but it did not generate sufficient consumer interest. In 1991, Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation) expanded its Target Greatland discount store chain into Columbus, Ohio, where it learned that its general merchandise superstores were unable to compete against the Meijer hypermarket chain. In response, Dayton-Hudson entered the hypermarket format in 1995 by opening its first SuperTarget store in Omaha, Nebraska.

Today there are approximately 4,500 hypermarket stores selling fuel, representing an estimated 14 billion US gallons (53,000,000 m³) sold each year.

Despite its success, the hypermarket business model may be under threat from on-line shopping and the shift towards customization according to analysts like Sanjeev Sanyal, Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist. Sanyal has also argued that some developing countries such as India may even skip the hypermarket stage and directly go online.

    After the successes of super- and hyper-markets and amid fears that smaller stores would be forced out of business, France enacted laws that made it more difficult to build hypermarkets and also restricted the amount of economic leverage that hypermarket chains can impose upon their suppliers (the Loi Galland).

In France, hypermarkets are generally situated in shopping centers (French: centre commercial or centre d'achats) outside of cities, though some are present in the city center. They are surrounded by extensive parking lots, and generally by other specialized superstoresthat sell clothing, sports gear, automotive items, etc.

In Japan, hypermarkets may be found in urban areas as well as less populated areas. The Japanese government encourages hypermarket installations, as mutual investment by financial stocks are a common way to run hypermarkets. Japanese hypermarkets may contain restaurants, Manga (Japanese comic) stands, Internet cafes, typical department store merchandise, a full range of groceries, beauty salons and other services all inside the same store. A recent trend has been to combine the dollar store concept with the hypermarket blueprint, giving rise to the "hyakkin plaza"—hyakkin (百均) or hyaku en (百円) means 100 yen (roughly 1 US dollar).

   Another category of stores sometimes included in the hypermarket category is the membership-based wholesale warehouse clubs that are popular in North America, pioneered by Fedco and today including Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart; Costco, in which Carrefour has a small ownership percentage;, BJ's Wholesale Club on the East Coast and Clubes City Club in Mexico. In Europe, Makro (owned by METRO AG) leads the market.

However, warehouse clubs differ from hypermarkets in that they have sparse interior decor, require paid membership, and offer a far smaller variety of products for sale.

ROBINSONS MALL 

An amazing outdoor experience check out the hip and modern Ilocos, Robinsons place San Nicolas branch the newest lifestyle destination and tourist hotspot where you shop and dine. It’s no surprise that Robinsons place San Nicolas has become an instant hit among Ilocano’s because this is embraces the colors, aspirations, and spirit of Ilocano’s. Under the sun and sky Robinsons ilocos provides refreshing ambience to mall goers who are use to a covered and centralized building filled with an array of retail and fast food stores, it’s also provide a various themed for choosing the latest gadgets and sporting good. For active kids, there is a plays area and if you love fashion shop at Robinsons department store they offered different  style of clothes, pans shoes etc. In Robinsons supermarket, also offered some goodies, fresh fruits, vegetables and meat. Robinsons mall is the place where you could go shopping and find it all under one roof we always find everything we need and they want to make people fun, magical and heart warming because the view around the area create a new experience to be enjoy.