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The day runs inside a hypermarket. Life goes up and down the stairs and a watch beats the passing of time. It is the life that belongs to us.
Naming a hypermarket car park alley after a poet, and not just any poet, is the only original feature of this utterly banal space. The other aisles have stupid names, like Madame Jalouse or Monsieur Têtu. What poetic idea possessed the decision-maker to name this driveway after Monsieur Rimbaud?
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Donner le nom d'un poète, et pas n'importe lequel, à l'allée d'un parking d'hypermarché est la seule originalité de cet espace on ne peut plus banal. Les autres allées ont des noms stupides, comme Madame Jalousie ou Monsieur Têtu. Quelle mouche poétique a piqué le décideur pour nommer cette allée du nom de Monsieur Rimbaud ?
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This roundabout located on Gran Vía de Hortaleza has a fountain that lights up at night. It is known as Sandro Pertini Glorieta, named after the seventh president of Italy, from 1978 to 1985.
Here we have seen people bathe to celebrate when the Spanish soccer team won the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. It was a hot summer, and many people gave free rein to their excitement and joy by bathing in the fountain.
Anecdotes aside, next to this roundabout stands the Gran Vía de Hortaleza Shopping Center, with a Carrefour hypermarket and many shops and restaurants. It is one of the shopping centers that the district has and where many people gather to do the shopping, to have a coffee, a menu or drinks trying to avoid the intense heat in the street.
It is five minutes away from my parents´ home, from where I took this picture in a hot summer night.
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Fuente y Glorieta de Sandro Pertini, Hortaleza, Madrid, España
Esta rotonda situada en la Gran Vía de Hortaleza tiene una bonita fuente que se ilumina por la noche. Se la conoce como la Glorieta Sandro Pertini, en honor al séptimo presidente de Italia desde 1978 a 1985.
Aquí hemos visto a gente bañarse para celebrar cuando la selección española de fútbol ganó el Mundial de Sudáfrica en 2010. Era un verano caluroso y mucha gente dio rienda suelta a su emoción y alegría bañándose en la fuente.
Anécdotas aparte, junto a esta rotonda se encuentra el Centro Comercial Gran Vía de Hortaleza, con un hipermercado Carrefour y multitud de tiendas y restaurantes. Es uno de los centros comerciales que tiene el distrito y donde se reúne mucha gente para hacer las compras, tomar un café, un menú o bebidas tratando de evitar el intenso calor de la calle durante el verano.
Está a cinco minutos de la casa de mis padres, desde donde tomé esta foto en una calurosa noche de verano.
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Deux murs publicitaires pour... le même magasin car Auchan a racheté le Minifix en 1979. La pub de droite a peut-être été masquée sous de la peinture blanche qui disparait peu à peu.
Two ads... for the same hypermarket because Auchan bought the Minifix in 1979.
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Was walking beside the mall with a mobile device 😃 The resolution could have been better with with my nikon 10-20mm lens
Address: Quest Mall 4th floor, 33, Syed Amir Ali Ave, Park Circus, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal 700017.
The design brief for the mall was to blend elements of Kolkata's rich cultural heritage with the look, feel and detail of the world's most dynamic and successful shopping centres.
The Quest Mall (Spencers Galleria) is located on Syed Amir Ali Ave, Park Circus, Ballygunge Kolkata and is RP-Sanjiv Goenka groups debut project in luxury malls.
The CESC built Quest Mall (Spencers Galleria) is spread over 3 acres and offers 4.15 lakhs sq.ft of retail area.
The anchor tenant at Quest Mall is the Spencers Hypermarket. It also boasts brands such as Armani, Bretling, Burberry, Canali, FCUK, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste, Nautica, Omega, Tommy Hilfiger.
The Quest Mall also has an entertainment Zone, Inox Multiplex, food court, fine dining area and a multi-level car park for 900 vehicles+.
Looking down from an upper deck on all the cars loaded on to the ferry.
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Taken on a day trip to France to stock up on beer, wine, and French food at the big hypermarkets.
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It was announced in July 2008 that both McDonald's and KFC are opening a restaurant (both featuring a Drive-Thru facility) in 2009 at the exit of the new Southern ring road of Zaandam. Like most of these projects there was a delay but McDonald's opened its doors in August 2010. When visiting this store (October 2010) KFC was still closed and about to open.
Behind the both restaurants there will be a parking lot and probably another brico-hypermarket. This area is still under reconstruction.
Strange enough this brand new store has no EasyOrder and/or McCafé.
McDonald's Zaandam Zuid
Stormhoek 1
1506 SW Zaandam
Tel: 075-631.88.52
Featuring: Terrace - Roof terrace (accessible by elevator) - Drive-Thru
Store#: 1276
Date of opening: 02/08/2010
KFC Zaandam Zuid
Stormhoek 5
1506 SW Zaandam
Tel:
Featuring: Drive-Thru
Date of opening: 26/10/2010
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Red Square (Russian: Кра́сная пло́щадь, Krásnaya plóshchad’) is the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitay-gorod. As major streets of Moscow radiate from here in all directions, being promoted to major highways outside the city, the Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and of all Russia.
Directly opposite the Mausoleum, on the eastern side of the square, lies the building which houses Russia's most famous shopping mall - the State Department Store, GUM. Since the fall of communism, several other shopping centers and hypermarkets have sprung up to rival it in prestige, but GUM retains its status as a consumer Mecca for visitors to Moscow.
Main Department Store or GUM (ГУМ, pronounced as goom, in full Главный Универсальный Магазин, Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin) is a common name for the main department store in many cities of the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet states. The most famous GUM is a large store in Kitai-gorod of Moscow, facing Red Square. During Christmas time the whole GUM building is lit with thousands of lights and I was lucky to capture it with such a beautifufl sunset.
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The area is host to a large shopping complex called Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre. It was one of the first out-of-town shopping centres in Kent. The centre includes the county's largest branch of Sainsbury's (formerly a Savacentre) and Medway's largest Marks & Spencer. The centre also once housed the world's largest branch of NSS, situated at the main entrance to the centre. This newsagents later became a 'Forbuoys' (now part of the RS McColl group).
Development of the centre commenced in 1974, creating 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) of retail space. OIn the early 1990s an extension was built which is now home to a 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) M&S.
The original Picnic Parlour at Hempstead Valley was the UK's second food court (the first opening at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in 1976) and the centre was modelled on successful complexes in North America.[6] It was originally planned to be an open-air shopping centre but the concept was changed to a covered shopping complex. The centre opened on 17 October 1978.
Medway Council granted permission for a further extension in 2011. This extension has converted the empty units outside the main centre into a new food court with more outdoor seating, with the old food court converted into more retail units within the centre. SavaCentre was a chain of 13 hypermarkets and later a further seven discount supermarkets owned and operated jointly by Sainsbury's and BHS, beginning in 1977. Sainsbury's later took full control of the stores alone in 1989, rebranding them as Sainsbury's SavaCentre, until 2005 when the stores were integrated into the Sainsbury's supermarket brand. The hypermarket stores ranged in size from 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) to 117,000 sq ft (10,900 m2) and the discount supermarkets ranged in size from 31,000 sq ft (2,900 m2) to 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m2). At the time of its inception, it was the only dedicated hypermarket chain in the UK.
Captured with Sony A7 + Nikon Ai-S 28mm f/2.8
Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
See the crazy people run
So many games to play
See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby
The neon lights in the night tonight will say
Everything will flow
The stars that shine in the open sky will say
Everything will flow
The lovers kissed with an openness will say
Everything will flow
The cars parked in the hypermarket know
Everything will flow
Here's a rare sight, a shopping basket from the long defunct American Fare hypermarket.
American Fare only made it to 3 locations before Kmart decided to focus on the Super Kmart concept instead. The American Fare name lived on for a while as a Kmart private label, but I haven't seen it in a while.
"Hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarketand 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. "
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A few old houses have been blown off due to expansion of a hypermarket. This wooden house that has brick firewall is a lucky survivor so far. Such houses aren't considered as heritage objects, but the site loses its character without them.
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The Moving Parts line has firmly established itself within the broader Matchbox brand and is probably actually more appreciated by collectors than their usual basic mainline stuff. Rather criminally they are no longer offered in any UK chain store since the beginning of 2025 despite them selling extremely briskly in such places like The Entertainer and Sainsbury's. Technically they are available in some independent toy shops and online but for the average punter they are dead here.
Such a huge shame as models like their new 1984 Rover Vitesse would have proved EXTREMELY popular here for obvious reasons. My first example came from the US and this latest purchase from a Spanish Carrefour hypermarket whom had just stocked their toy aisles in readiness for Christmas, the choice of 1/64 diecast brands would put ANY of our retailers to shame.
A beautifully crafted replica of the SD1's performance variant, actually the later version with its deep front spoiler, full of detailing and featuring an opening bonnet revealing a lusty V8 engine.
Mint and boxed.
GUM, Moscow, Russia at night.
GUM in Moscow Kremlin Directly opposite the Mausoleum, on the eastern side of the square, lies the building which houses Russia's most famous shopping mall - the State Department Store, GUM. Since the fall of communism, several other shopping centers and hypermarkets have sprung up to rival it in prestige, but GUM retains its status as a consumer Mecca for visitors to Moscow. In the Soviet Union, the top floor was home to Section 100, a secret clothing store only open to the highest echelons of the party. Nowadays the rows of exclusive boutiques are accessible to anyone with a platinum card. That said, the building itself is glorious, and there are still a few more interesting relics of a bygone era on the higher floors that make it well worth exploring.
We have a beautiful country. Too bad it is inhabited
Raped, tortured, abused, sold, dismembered, disembowled, desecrated, defyled, exploited, drained, forgoten.
My brethren are forced to run in your traps, in your fences, in your bullets, in your tractors and limos, in your chemicals and wastes, in your private country clubs, in your grotesque glass and steel office buildings and luxury apartments (you bald impotents), in your malls and hypermarkets (you fucking stomach driven puppets). Can you hear them scream their last breath?
Still one of my all time favourite Maisto Fresh Metal castings and one I still can't leave behind whenever I see them on the pegs which of course very rarely happens here in the UK but more often abroad.
Strangely a newer green recolour appeared in some countries a year or so ago but for Europe this debut orange and white one is all thats on offer! Priced to undercut a basic HW and MBX cost cutting is evident but well disguised thanks to a really crisply cast body, intricate front and rear detailing and gorgeous era appropriate wheels.
Found recently at an Alcampo hypermarket in Spain.
Mint and boxed.
GUM, Moscow, Russia at night.
GUM in Moscow Kremlin Directly opposite the Mausoleum, on the eastern side of the square, lies the building which houses Russia's most famous shopping mall - the State Department Store, GUM. Since the fall of communism, several other shopping centers and hypermarkets have sprung up to rival it in prestige, but GUM retains its status as a consumer Mecca for visitors to Moscow. In the Soviet Union, the top floor was home to Section 100, a secret clothing store only open to the highest echelons of the party. Nowadays the rows of exclusive boutiques are accessible to anyone with a platinum card. That said, the building itself is glorious, and there are still a few more interesting relics of a bygone era on the higher floors that make it well worth exploring.
Ironically despite spending a lot of time in Spain I don't actually visit many of their larger Carrefour hypermarkets as in more recent years I always walk out empty handed thanks to a poor selection of diecasts. This time I gave the one just outside of Barcelona another chance hoping the festive toy aisles would finally yield some goodies.
Well i'm pleased to say it didn't disappoint particularly when it came to Matchbox, I don't think i've ever seen so many different ranges in a Spanish retailer before! Not just the expected singles and multi-packs but also the latest Japan Series which really was an unexpected pleasure.
As per usual the Japan Series contains mainly recycled Moving Parts releases such as the debut release of their 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero. We knew it as the Shogun and for a period was a good seller here in the UK and this little model is a good replica of the shortened three door body style. Lots of detailing and complete with opening front doors.
Mint and boxed.
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360 degrees Kuwait is a truly unique destination coming up at the intersection o King Faisal Highway and the 6th ring Road, amidst a busy and growing residential area. With a retail area of over 75,000 square meters, the mall will offer one of the most engaging shopping and leisure experience in Kuwait. Superb Architerture will showcase the best of international, regional and local retailers to create a delightful experience for visitors. A hypermarket, two department stores and fabulous leisure and entertainment arenas will be just some of its major attraction.
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All summer, they dug up and built something behind the fence, and then removed the fence and opened a new hypermarket a week later. It's okay, now I often go there.
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Все лето за забором что-то копали и строили, а потом забор убрали и через неделю открыли новый гипермаркет. Нормальный такой, теперь я часто в него хожу.
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Warrington Borough Transport 100 is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with East Lancs bodywork, new in 1973. It was later renumbered 31.
Note the advert for the opening of the "Biggest Hypermarket in the Land" in Irlam. This opened in 1976
GUM, Moscow, Russia.
GUM in Moscow Kremlin Directly opposite the Mausoleum, on the eastern side of the square, lies the building which houses Russia's most famous shopping mall - the State Department Store, GUM. Since the fall of communism, several other shopping centers and hypermarkets have sprung up to rival it in prestige, but GUM retains its status as a consumer Mecca for visitors to Moscow. In the Soviet Union, the top floor was home to Section 100, a secret clothing store only open to the highest echelons of the party. Nowadays the rows of exclusive boutiques are accessible to anyone with a platinum card. That said, the building itself is glorious, and there are still a few more interesting relics of a bygone era on the higher floors that make it well worth exploring.