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Walmart is the largest grocer in america, which they still are. Sam Walton launched a spinout of walmart in the late eighties and early nineties called hyper mart usa. He battled cancer for the last few years of his life. As his health was failing, he had already handed over the ceo roll to david glass the company. And then, after his death, started a smaller scale version of a hyper market that they called super centers. They brought the walmart approach of low prices to grocery too.

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