grocery store

noun

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

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Sacramento County inspectors shut down a local hot pot restaurant and a Fijian grocery store due to cockroach and rat infestations. Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025 According to the 1992 article, the only open businesses in Braselton were a furniture store and a dentist’s office, but the hardware store, department store and grocery store had all closed. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025 Conecuh sausage can be found at just about any grocery store here in the South. Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2025 When companies’ testing and reporting systems are fully up and running, a quick scan at the grocery store will allow consumers to adapt their purchases to minimize infants’ exposures to heavy metals. C. Michael White, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 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 4 Mar. 2025.

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