Demographics play a significant role in all of this, and time appears to be on the side of companies arguing for financial supermarkets.
As those percentages suggest, however, credit unions remain a corner grocery in an industry of financial supermarkets.
Bank of America built its brand as a financial supermarket that could be all things to all people.
Smaller competitors of the merged company also have concerns about financial supermarkets.
This idea of a financial supermarket is a media creation.
But we do want broader services, and we have what I'd call a limited financial supermarket.
"But if you're going to be a financial supermarket, you've got to have aisles for every customer to walk down."
This may well be reminiscent of the financial supermarkets that were trendy a decade ago.
While some people try to create multimedia giants, others have visions of financial supermarkets.
As nearly everyone has already pointed out, the record of financial supermarkets is dismal.