A no frills discount store popular in the 1970s that allowed the customers to mark their own prices with a grease pencil as well as bag their own groceries.
The term general merchandise store is also used to describe a hybrid of a department store, with a wide selection of goods, and a discount store, with low prices.
The centre is modern and uninteresting, with a school, supermarket, petrol station, a couple of pizza restaurants, a handelsbanken bank and a discount store.