'chain supermarket' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an interconnected group of supermarkets owned by the same business. For example, "The local chain supermarket offers a wide variety of products at a reasonable cost."
But the benefits have trickled down, as a visit to any midrange chain supermarket will confirm.
She spent her last years in a nursing home — a serene modernist building in a small Danish village, where thatched-roof cottages sat alongside a garish chain supermarket.
We can shop for groceries at the farmers' market, the neighborhood store or the chain supermarket — but they are all comparably expensive.
I was amazed by the volume of coverage that The Hyde Park Herald devoted to the old Co-op, which is now a chain supermarket called Treasure Island, much to the dismay of many longtime residents.
For 40 years, he affirms, he has had "a front seat" at the worldwide revolution in cooking and eating, "from the arcane temples of culinary modernism to the airport sandwich shop to the chain supermarket to the average home kitchen".
"Nowadays I have less in common with the guy who runs the chain supermarket, whose ordering and decisions are made for him at some central office, than I do with the little fellow who runs his own bodega.
Even some chain supermarkets have in-house a? counters.
But there is only one movie theatre in New Jersey's largest city, and just four chain supermarkets.
One finding that surprised the research team was that national chain supermarkets offered less mislabeled seafood than regional chains or small specialty markets.
Lloyds investigated average house prices in postal districts that have chain supermarkets nearby to see how they compared to the wider postal region.
But when New Jersey shoppers buy organic produce at most chain supermarkets, he said, it has come from out of state, often from abroad.
