In fact, shopping malls and shopping centers are the same type of consumer business model, which generally includes comprehensive functions such as daily necessities, catering and entertainment. At first, everyone called this kind of building Shopping Centre or Shopping Arcade or Plaza (the word Plaza itself already contains the meaning of shopping center), but later you may think that this name is used too much. Moreover, it is not enough to express the growing scale, so the names of shopping malls, shopping plazas and shopping plazas have been developed, with little difference in essential meaning, which can be said to be used casually in the market. If you care, you will distinguish it from the architectural form. For example, only one or two floors are called squares or squares, and many floors are called Mall. In addition, they are composed of many operators, which are different from the single operator that supermarkets usually know. (Of course, some supermarkets now adopt the business model of department stores, subletting some places to independent operators to increase their income sources. )

As for supermarkets, it was first translated directly from English supermarkets. When they were introduced to Hong Kong in the 1970s, they were called supermarkets. When they were introduced to the mainland in the 1980s, they were simply called supermarkets. Supermarket is a daily consumption and retail business model developed in the United States in the last century, replacing the traditional vegetable market and grocery store. Later, due to market competition, the scale of supermarkets became larger and larger, and the variety of operations became wider and wider. From the initial food, daily necessities, to even cooked food, clothing, electrical appliances, furniture and other categories, some people have developed names such as hypermarkets and supermarkets.

If your project is based on a supermarket and the whole site is contracted by one operator, I think it will be more appropriate to use Megastore or hypermarket.