Hipercor
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 Hipercor facts

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• is an up-scale chain of hypermarkets in Spain, belonging to the same group as El Corte Inglés
• It has its head office in the El Corte Inglés head office building in Madrid
• Hipercor generally stocks a wide range of household and food products across large floorspaces (1 or 2 storeys) and are usually located as part of the same building complexes (styled as centro commercial) as the El Corte Inglés department store
• Other 'Cor' supermarkets include SuperCor (average sized units) and OpenCor, smaller convenience stores that open all year round from 07/08:00 and closing at 01/02:00 the following morning
• On 19 June 1987, a car bomb exploded in the underground car park of a Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona, killing 21 civilians and injuring 45, amongst them several small children
• Santiago Arrospide, also known as Santi Potros, and Rafael Caride Simon were sentenced to 790 years in prison for their role in the attack
• Both Arrospide and Simon were members of the Basque separatist group ETA