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Les supermarchés ont beaucoup de choses.

Les supermarchés ont beaucoup de choses.
Supermarkets have a lot of things.
From Lesson 14:There is / there are (il y a)·French

Questions & Answers about Les supermarchés ont beaucoup de choses.

The lesson is about il y a (there is/are), so why does this sentence use ont (have)?
This sentence is showing another way to express that things exist somewhere. Instead of saying 'there are a lot of things in the supermarkets' (il y a beaucoup de choses dans les supermarchés), it uses the verb avoir (to have) to say the supermarkets have a lot of things. Both are very common ways to describe what is inside a place!
Why is it beaucoup de choses and not beaucoup des choses? The word 'things' is plural!
The phrase beaucoup de is a fixed expression meaning 'a lot of'. In French, when you use a word that expresses a quantity (like beaucoup or un peu), it is almost always followed by just de or d', never des—even if the noun that comes next is plural.
What verb is ont?
It is the verb avoir (to have). Because Les supermarchés is plural, it acts like the pronoun ils (they). The correct form of avoir for 'they' is ont.
Why do we need Les at the beginning if the English translation just says 'Supermarkets'?
In French, nouns almost always need an article (like a, the, or some) in front of them. When you are talking about a general category of things—like supermarkets in general—French uses the definite articles le, la, or les.

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