Super-Duper Mart (Fallout 3)



Super-Duper Mart is a grocery store located near the Potomac River. It lies northeast of Megaton, and northwest of Grayditch. It is completely overrun by raiders.

Exterior
In front of the Super-Duper Mart is a large parking lot with hanging corpses indicating the raider presence inside. Two Nuka-Cola vending machines are against the wall of the store between the entrances, along with a pair of non-respawning raiders who engage in combat with anything they detect.

If it is the player's first foray near Grayditch, the player will likely encounter Bryan Wilks here once the hostiles are killed. The quest Those! can be initiated from his dialogue.

Interior
As the Lone Wanderer enters the Super-Duper Mart through the left door, the entry room contains a Nuka-Cola vending machine directly to the left, with scattered empty Nuka-Cola bottles around it. Upon entering the store proper, there will be a hallway on the left wall leading to the restrooms and through which raiders will enter the main area.

Entering by the right door allows the player character to enter just left of an area surrounded by a counter that contains about half the loot in the store. The right wall is patrolled less often and allows access closer to the back of the store without being spotted.

The majority of the store is made up of super market style shelves which have planks acting as makeshift bridges between them. These are patrolled by raiders and contain very few useful items.

The pharmacy (room on the back wall) contains most of the remainder of the store's loot and houses a protectron that can be activated to help fight the raiders. The key to open it can be found in a metal crate in the mart. The door can also be lockpicked or opened by hacking the terminal next to it (Lockpick or Science of 25 required).

Exterior

 * West-northwest, about one square from Super-Duper Mart, there is a house with a Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual on a shelf.
 * Northwest about one square, on the bank of the Potomac River, is a mirelurk nesting ground with over 30 individual eggs and several egg clutches. For low-mid level characters, this can be a free-to-cheap, abundant resource early on.

Related quests

 * Wasteland Survival Guide
 * Those!
 * The Nuka-Cola Challenge

Appearances
The Super-Duper Mart appears in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Ads for the Super-Duper Mart can be found in the Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters, an El Rey Motel room, the Cottonwood Cove mess hall, and in Mick & Ralph's in Fallout: New Vegas, as well as its add-on Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes

 * A character titled "Dead mercenary," seen in an early gameplay video, was cut from Fallout 3 near the end of development. She was intended to spawn dead outside of the Super-Duper Mart. This character was equipped with combat armor, biker goggles, a bandana, a Type 93 Chinese Assault rifle, and 214 5.56mm rounds.
 * Similarly, the Lone Wanderer found a power fist in the restrooms in the next video, which featured quite prominently in a V.A.T.S.-assisted beheading uppercut. There are no power fists in Super-Duper Mart in the final game, however.

Bugs
Shooting any of the check-out counters between the exits will cause them to bleed and produce a blood splat.