Gigante In 2006, Grupo Gigante was a publicly-owned company that ran a group of multi-
format retail stores. First incorporated in 1963, Gigante had 33,000 employees in 2006. The retail
stores were in four formats: a hypermarket analogous to Walmex’s Supercenter (Gigante); a
warehouse-style food and retail store (Bodega Gigante); a supermarket (Super Gigante); and, a hard-
discount store (SuperPrecio). Each Gigante store averaged 63,000 square feet of selling space and
stocked 50,000-55,000 S