Then along came the self-service supermarket. Since then, the car has allow businesses to construct vast out-of-town hypermarkets and shopping malls containing branches of nationwide chain stores. Within Europe a few big players dominate the supermarket business: France’s Carrefour and Tesco continue to grow at home and abroad while Germany’s Metro already has 2,300 stores around the world. Yet none can match US giant Wal-Mart with it 100 million customers a week. The film even has more people in uniform than the US army!