grocery store

noun

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

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At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026 Across the Triangle area markets, total grocery store sales was nearly $9 billion last year. — Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2026 Savan Pourharton wants to sell beer from the GG Mart on Farmington Avenue at Wannowmassa Lane, arguing that the convenience store part of his business could qualify as a grocery store. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026 Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to a local grocery store after finding a cockroach egg sac stuck on a glue trap. — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 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 6 Oct. 2026.

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