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Super-Duper Mart Tour
1 of 16: The first time you go to this location, approach it from the west. (Start at or near Megaton and head east.)
2 of 16: When you reach the back wall of the store, check the two trash bins for items, then turn right and go around the corner, and move up to the fencing. You should see (and hear) a battle between raiders and whatever people or creatures were randomly spawned in the parking lot. (Note that there may not be anyone fighting the raiders, depending on the encounter chosen, but there probably will be.)
3 of 16: Snipe at whatever you can, then go around the store building and enter the parking lot cautiously, ready to back up for cover if any survivors see you. After you're sure everything is dead, scour the parking lot for bodies to loot. (Watch out for unexploded mines and a radioactive barrel near the store -- some random encounters feature them.)
4 of 16: Loot both of the Nuka-Cola vending machines and the one garbage can that are next to the store, then enter it through its northern (right-hand) set of doors in Sneak mode. There are several raiders in the store, and you'll want to finish them off before you start looting the place.
5 of 16: After all the raiders are dead and looted, go to the bathrooms along the south side of the store (if you're not already there) to start your looting expedition.
6 of 16: As you leave the bathroom area, turn right and go over to the southern exit doors. There's a garbage can and Nuka-Cola vending machine to raid there.
7 of 16: Next, go all along the row of checkout counters and check every cash register (one of which has fallen on the floor). Past that, check the garbage can near the northern exit doors, then jump over the nearby counter (or find the door that leads to the same area).
8 of 16: Look next to the intercom on the outer counter for a bottle of dirty water, then check the two inner counters for a bottlecap mine, a laser pistol, a pack of energy cells, two ammo boxes (right under the pistol and cells), two stimpaks, another laser pistol, two more energy cell packs, more dirty water, two metal boxes, and vodka.
9 of 16: Check the shelves for more metal boxes, then raid the "food storage" fridge for food items. (Note that this is what you need to complete a basic objective for the "The Wasteland Survival Guide" misc. quest.)
10 of 16: About all there is out in the big central floor area are tin cans, but there are a couple of other things. You can find two boxes of abraxo cleaner on the shelves near the SW corner of the central floor, and another food storage fridge in an old freezer case a bit north and west of that.
11 of 16: Go through the open blue door in the back of the store that you shot raiders near, then enter the room on the left. Inside, you'll find another mattress to sleep on and an ammo box and mine box on the floor near a counter corner. On the counter near that area four 5.56mm ammo clips, two frag grenades, and a Barter skill book called "Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor."
12 of 16: Look in an open cupboard to the right of that to find a toy car, then go down a ways to find a steam gauge assembly in another cupboard, and two more ammo boxes on the end of the counter. Across from that is a locked door with a locked terminal next to it. If you can, pick the lock and hack the terminal for XP. If you can do neither, read on to find out where to get the key.
13 of 16: Return to the hall and go down it until you end up in a room behind a large counter. Start by checking the three metal boxes on the inner counter on the left. One of them will contain the key to that locked door in the previous room. Before you go back there, check around for other goodies.
14 of 16: There's a motorcycle gas tank on the floor next to a knocked-over table, a motorcycle handbrake on the tipsy chair, a conductor and a bottlecap mine on an upright table, another bottlecap mine on the main counter, and two ammo boxes and a grenade box near that.
15 of 16: Return to the locked door and use the key to open it if you couldn't do so some other way. There's a *lot* of stuff in the room beyond.
