In Spanish, we can say super shorthand for supermercado which is super market.

Costa Rica has many expats due to its retirement marketing. It’s a very easy country to reside in permanently and legally for people of any background. Mario is not that unique of a name.

Your post just shows how ignorant you can be of different cultures as well as having being very /r/hailcorporate. You can love Nintendo all you want, but it does not give them exclusivity to the name Mario.

And to state the obvious: Nintendo lost the suit, the founder named it after him self and the super has been in operation for over 50 years.

You did see the part where I said "Unless the owners name is Mario" and I've been to Costa Rica.

I live in the US and I've never even met a Mario, even amongst Italians I've studied or worked with.

Don José Mario Alfaro González is the owners name.

The business has been named Super Mario for 52 years

In a similar vein, Uzi Nissan won a protracted legal battle against Nissan (the car company) over nissan.com, because he'd been in business fixing import cars way before Nissan decided to drop the Datsun name.

Still wound up getting his life ruined from the legal fees, though

I submitted this post because on another thread, multiple people were telling me a company can't sue you if your identical business name or brand is operating in an unrelated industry. Supermarkets are not exactly in the gaming industry.

Mario is a name in Spanish as well as Italian (and several other languages). There are probably many Marios in Costa Rica; and yes, the supermarket owner is one.

I have never been to Costa Rica, but I know for a fact there are a lot of Mexican Marios and I doubt Costa Rican naming customs differ substantially from Mexican ones.