grocery store

noun

chiefly US
: a store that sells food and household supplies : supermarket

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Destiny seemingly landed him in Sitka when he was assigned to manage a local grocery store. Tim Trudell, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025 Sage Harvest stopped offering cooking classes out of the Brady Street space last year after Glorioso's Italian Market was sold to a group owned in part by members of the Presta family, which operates Valli Produce, a grocery store chain in northeastern Illinois. Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025 Pick a distant parking spot at the grocery store, for example, or walk laps around the field while your child is at soccer practice. Jamie Ducharme, Health, 4 Nov. 2025 At my local grocery store, a pound of ground beef costs nearly $8, but a frozen entrée of six Salisbury steaks with gravy can be purchased for only $5. Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grocery store

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“Grocery store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20store. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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