Big-box Store Edit Meaning

1.

A Big-Box Store is a large, free standing rectangular single floor store built on a concrete slab. They are incredibly wasteful and ugly to look at having no aesthetic value what so ever. Typically have very large parking lots with no trees.

Also sometimes called a superstore, megastore, or supercenter.

Walmart is a good example of a big-box store.

See walmart, walmarting, retail, corporation, big business, wal-mart, superstore, megastore

2.

Large, high-volume stores. I.e., Circuit City, IKEA, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, etc.

The new shopping center outside of town has acres and acres of big-box stores.