Comercial Mexicana

Comercial Mexicana (coloquially known as La Comercial or La Comer) is a Mexican hypermarket group, which features stores similar to those owned by Carrefour in France or Wal-Mart in the United States. It is part of the Controladora Comercial Mexicana Group which also co-owns the local Costco warehouse franchise, Sumesa stores, City Market stores, Alprecio stores and Restaurantes California.
Comercial Mexicana has different retail formats, with the general stores branded as Comercial Mexicana, the larger stores as Mega Comercial Mexicana and its smaller facilities as Bodega Comercial Mexicana. Many of its general stores are connected to a shopping mall with competing businesses surrounding. An example is Plaza Río in Tijuana, Baja California, which has Comercial Mexicana as an anchor store but also has a traditional department store and smaller specialty stores selling items that can be purchased in Comercial Mexicana.
Comercial Mexicana also has programs for children. In exchange for working in stores as bag boys, the children receive family support, tuition support and educational supplies, and basic services. The children wear almost-trademark brown uniforms with the orange pelican logo and are expected to be well groomed. They help most of the customers out of the store and return the carts, which in turn keeps the shopping cart thefts low.
The owner, Guillermo González Nova, is believed to have been responsible for the death of British musician Kirsty MacColl in 2000, although it was never proved. His ship-hand was blamed and found guilty of homicide.[citation needed]
On October 9, 2008, Comercial Mexicana admitted it was insolvent due to $4 billion in losses suffered from derivatives contracts suffered from a sudden fall in the Mexican peso's value, and entered restructuring procedures (somewhat similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States).

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