grocery store

noun

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

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In 2022, 10 Black shoppers were killed by a white supremacist at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 17 June 2025 The project would complement Skyview’s adjacent Downtown Gather & Grow development on Ruby Avenue, which includes a full-service grocery store with a food court and 231-unit apartment tower. Laura Kinsler, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2025 Alex jokes that before taking on this commitment Bob had rarely shopped at a grocery store. Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025 This is one of a few shapes in a specialty line of pastas at the grocery store. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 14 June 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 27 Jun. 2025.

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