grocery store

noun

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

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Use these three tried and true strategies to pick a good bottle of wine at the grocery store. Katie Kelly Bell, AJC.com, 2 May 2026 Look for key limes alongside the citrus fruits at your local grocery store—they’re smaller than traditional Persian limes and often have a slightly sweeter flavor. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2026 Other council members expressed a desire that the former grocery store be redeveloped first. Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 1 May 2026 With prices at the grocery store high, many people are turning to a more sustainable source of food – gardens. Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for grocery store

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