In my country (UK) thousands of tiny local convenience stores have the word supermarket in their names, so whenever I need to find a supermarket, Google Maps is pretty much useless.Is there any way to tell Google Maps to find actual supermarkets? i.e. the kind of big store that is commonly meant by the word 'supermarket', not small little shops
How do you find nearby supermarkets on Google Maps?
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Good question, but I don't think there is currently a perfect answer to this. Google Maps doesn't know if one supermarket is more actual than another. What would be the criteria? Even if you wanted to draw up a list of actual supermarkets it would be very subjective. That's still what we do with options 2 and 3. Option 1Search for a supermarket that is a superstore supermarket superstore and you will be sure to get big supermarkets. However you won't get the medium size ones. Option 2 (gives good results)Search for the known supermarket chains, remove the ones which may be categorized as convenience stores or have local or express in their names.supermarket AND (superstore  OR aldi OR asda OR budgens OR cooltrader OR the co-operative food OR farmfoods OR fulton's foods OR heron foods OR iceland OR lidl OR mark's & spencer  OR morrisons OR ocado OR sainsbury's OR tesco OR waitrose)-local -express -convenienceTried it for my area and I can't see any small shops.Option 3If you are in a hurry, on mobile or if you don't like the idea of using brand names (because that's a list to update with time), we could do shorter. We would get more results, but little shops would come back as our problem is that a place named Supermarket in the category Supermarket will appear no matter its size.supermarket superstore -local -express -convenience