Noropoulos S.A.

Noropoulos Anonymi Etairia is a Greek-Robloxian chain of supermarkets and former hypermarkets founded in 1947 by Dimitri Panayiotis Noropoulo and Yiannis Noropoulo. It became a subsidiary of North-Robloxian based Harvard Bloxys Corporation in 2010, which is also affiliated with the Noropoulos Philippines, a Pilipino-Robloxian chain of stores with the merger of SM Hypermarkets and Noropoulos Philippines. By 2008, Noropoulos became the largest chain of stores with sales over $500,000 raised.

History
Noropoulos started in 1947 as Αφοι Νοροπουλο Α.Ε., the business grew in 1956 and the 'Αφοι' was dropped to just be 'Noropoulos' (even though it's used on the flagship store signage). Then, they expanded to the other parts of Robloxia. In 1991, they began Noropoulos Home, which is a home department at Noropoulos. The flagship store opened as the first Noropoulos, they expanded through into the 6 parts of Robloxia, and the chain mostly became popular, the store was featured in the Robloxian magazine and also featured in a couple of newspapers.

Pilipino-Robloxia
From 1998 to 2014, Noropoulos operated thirty-one (31) stores in the Pilipino-Robloxia region. They usually began as Noropoulos Supermarts, but the 'supermarts' was dropped in 2000. This was a collaboration between Noropoulos and SM. These stores were mostly inside SM Malls. SM closed all of Noropoulos' remaining thirty-one stores the thirty-first store was the last one to open in the region, the final store closed its doors, marking an end to Noropoulos in the region.

Failed revival
In 2017, SM announced they would try to bring back Noropoulos and would open it's first store in late 2018. The revival never took place.

Defunct store formats
Note: Noropoulos stopped using their formats all together in 2019.

Hyper Noro
Stylized as HyperNORO was a large format of megastores owned by Noropoulos. These stores began opening in 1995 as Noropoulos MEGA but were turned into Hyper Noro in 1998, they competed against another retailer, Big W, which was owned by Woolworths. There were only 23 locations with a Goody's in 2 locations and also had Dixons. The format was struggling between 1999 and 2001, the format was discontinued in 2002 as the stores were fully rebranded into Noropoulos, but later closed down and became Carrefour.

Noropoulos/Jumbo
From 2010 to 2013, this format would mostly have 2 stories. Jumbo and Noropoulos were split into two between a wall. There's nothing much of this but this format was for 'better belief', this format was discontinued in 2013 when all stores would close and later become other retails.

Extra
This is not a format but was counted as a format. Extra (stylized as 'extra') was a Spanish chain of small grocery stores that were mostly owned by Noropoulos, these locations opened up in early 2005. They sold freshly-made food at low prices. These stores were renamed to 'Extra by Noropoulos'. But the chain was discontinued in 2014 and later rebranded into Noropoulos.

Proposed locations
Disneyland North Robloxia - this location was planned to be in the park, the store was planned to open in 2004, but never opened.

South Foreshire - this location was planned to open in 1998, the store never opened and was turned into a Toys “R” Us, along with Babies “R” Us in 2007.

Pulton Park – this was originally planned as their flagship store, to move from the first Noropoulos to Pulton Park. But, the location also never opened and was later turned into a Virgin Megastore in 2009.

Alton – this location was a futuristic Noropoulos that Christon Group wanted to try out, it was planned to be the first Hyper Noro and planned to open in 1997, but never opened and was turned into a storage facility in 2008.

Woolworths acquisition
In 2004, Woolworths acquired Noropoulos, this deal was to make a new rebranding and ultimatly make a new company named Woolworths/Noropoulos. These stores would be in high streets and would each have two stores in a two-story Woolworths. The brand was shutdown due to Woolworths's liquidation in 2009.

Vodafone
Vodafone was a sponsor of Noropoulos from 1998 to 2001. Vodafone sponsored the chain but until 2001, the 2001 bomb attack. This caused Vodafone to stop the sponsorship and was stopped on June 29, 2001.

Bank of Robloxia
Bank of Robloxia is a current sponsor of Noropoulos since 1999, the sponsor was mostly known for making the app, Noropoulos Bank. They are still sponsoring Noropoulos to this day.

Moustakas
Moustakas is a Greek toy retailer that focuses on toys and school supplies. These stores are mostly found next to twenty-three Noropoulos stores, and the rest of their stores are standalone. Today, there are four standalone toy stores and the rest are next to Noropoulos. At Noropoulos's flagship store, Moustakas is found at the 7th floor, since the Noropoulos flagship store is 13 stories high, making it the world's largest supermarket, that had beaten Macy's flagship store.