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Shanghai MOS Trading Group Co. Ltd., doing business as MOS and MOS Company, is a Chinese multinational retail company headquartered in. Its business format includes supermarkets, convenience stores, department stores, hypermarkets, online grocery, online non-food, drugstores, and liquor stores.

History
MOS was founded in 1987 by three men - Mao Zhiyuan, Ou Haiwei and Shan Weichen. After Zhiyuan visited a while on vacation in, they decided to bring the hypermarket concept to. Following their purchase of a failing state-run department store, they opened the first MOS Store in 1988.

In 2013, MOS approached A&P about purchasing the company. On August 4, 2014, it was announced A&P was sold to MOS for US$10.6 million.