WORLD: The Supermarket Revolution Moves Into Honduras, by Dan Charles, NPR's Morning Edition, August 5, 2008

The supermarket is an untold story of connectivity--and consolidation. You remember as a kid, there were all these plain specialty food stores, which then got sucked up into the ever-enlarging supermarkets (the old baker who had a shop now heads the bakery dept), only to be replaced later--as supermarkets became such bargain places--by higher-end food shops as incomes rose.

That was indeed a half-century process for us, but you can see it exploding in China today.

Interesting that Wal-Mart goes by a more localized name down south.

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