On June 8, the Government took control of the Kenmore, which officials called "a virtual supermarket for crack cocaine."

In 2011, retailer Home plus opened the world's first virtual supermarket at the station, where smartphone users can photograph the bar code the of life-size pictures, on the walls and platform screen doors, of 500 items of food, toiletries, electronics etc, for delivery within the same day.

Mr. Staehle soon discovered that his virtual supermarket might be permanently closed, too.

Federal authorities seized a filthy, dilapidated residential hotel near Gramercy Park yesterday, saying that drug dealers used it to operate "a virtual supermarket for crack cocaine."

The bay contains the largest seagrass beds in the world, attracting a profusion of marine life - a virtual supermarket not only for dolphins but also for a variety of sharks, including 16-foot great whites.

Consider the new Gold Coast Casino, a virtual supermarket of games.

Tenants hold meetings in an apartment house on St. Nicholas Avenue that once was the site of a virtual supermarket in drugs.

Late in the 20th century, this dubious tradition came to include drug dealing, and every major Australian city has pubs which became notorious in the 1970s and beyond as virtual "supermarkets" for cannabis, amphetamines, heroin and other drugs.

The drug indictment, handed down last year, portrayed Mr. Gatien's two clubs as virtual supermarkets for drugs.

In court papers, the F.B.I. said drug dealers used the hotel to operate "a virtual supermarket for crack cocaine."