grocerygro‧cer‧y /ˈɡrəʊsəri $ ˈɡroʊ-/ ●●● S3 noun 
groceries [plural] food and other goods that are sold by a grocer or a supermarket2 (also ˈgrocery store) [countable] American English a supermarket
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- I go to the grocery store.
- I reached the road, picked up my groceries, and left her in peace.
- It seems as though every day a new kind of cereal appears on the grocery shelves.
- Morenz put down the flowers and the groceries and moved down the passage.
- Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers, especially in the grocery trade.
- The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
- They buy some of the stuff at the grocery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1· These are two of Florida’s largest grocery chains.
American English (=a list of food you want to buy)· Did you put milk on the grocery list?
· She even enjoys grocery shopping.
American English (=one that sells one type of goods)
She worked in a grocery store before going to college.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE She worked in a grocery store before going to college.· Fahrat, 20, who runs a small grocery, is desperate for customers: I don't make a profit.· One glimpsed the fresh-fruit stands and small grocery store dotting the edge of a small world never available.· Number 73 was just a doorway between a travel agent and a small grocery store, with three steps leading up to it.· The boom has been fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products with even small grocery stores receiving up to 12 deliveries every day.
NOUN· It was a good little earner, it paid the grocery bills for the week - his own, anyway.· Our ticket dollars pay their grocery bills.· Like all social historians, I find more property deeds than grocery bills in the archives.
· No one at Safeway Stores, the other major grocery chain in the Washington-Baltimore area, was available for comment.· Saying they were losing money there, large grocery chains began moving out of inner-city neighborhoods in the 1980s.· Likewise, a wholesale bakery believes that it is in the business of making bread and desserts for grocery chains.· Kroger, a client of Goldman Sachs, has become the country's second-largest grocery chain with the help of junk bonds.· The contract is expected to set the standard for contracts with other Northern California grocery chains and major independents.· Nonprofit organizations are establishing partnerships with large grocery chains to bring supermarkets into low income neighborhoods.· The A & P grocery chain ran a laundry in Belleville for cleaning and repairing their employees' work clothes.
· He had started a grocery list, but only got as far as coffee and sugar.· How do you make up a grocery list or plan a career?· Mymenus, which is sponsored by grocery stores nationwide, also provides a handy grocery list with every recipe.
· He had not been able to buy himself provisions, both grocery shops were closed.· The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.· Then she made her way to the little corner grocery shop, five minutes' walk from Jubilee Street.· On cafe terraces or in grocery shops?· Now the grocery shops want the Prime Minister to intervene.· I went into a nearby grocery shop to do my shopping and stood.· Willie followed him next door into a chemist's shop and then into a grocery shop.
· His parents own the grocery store.· Bernie takes his bland government sedan to the local grocery store and trundles his way down the fresh produce aisle.· Constable Jamieson was talking to Mr Fox, who owned the grocery store.· The percentage of disposable income spent at grocery stores and supermarkets has been declining since the 1970s.· He went to the grocery store and bought food.· Whether this was congenital, stemmed from growing up around a grocery store, or nerve induced, she sometimes wondered.· More than 10 years would pass, however, before it appeared on grocery store shelves as Saran Wrap.
VERB· This could discourage people from driving ten miles to buy their groceries.· List all the essential tasks from buying groceries to taking out the garbage.· The market; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries, is still there.· It was just enough to buy groceries in the evening on the bicycle.· I wish they would buy all their groceries from the Cairnbaan Post Office as they meander past.· So all he had to do was find a shop, buy the groceries, and come back.· But places for them to eat, sleep and buy groceries or outdoors items are cropping up more often.
· Carla had been carrying groceries to the car; she'd put the bags down on the sea wall to shake hands.· Its aim was to become the single line of spices carried by most grocery stores.· The other day for example, at a neighborhood market, I saw a woman carrying grocery bags open her car trunk.
· People sat around and discussed problems with their children and where to find cheap groceries.· The cost is comparable to what you find at natural-foods groceries and farmers' markets.· The morning of the move, Jerome talked about finding a grocery store near their new home.
· Right in the centre of Church Street was a stall selling green groceries.· To hold and expand volume, supermarkets took on nonfood lines, products that were not previously sold in grocery stores.· He had sold wholesale groceries in Brooklyn and cheap tobacco in Yonkers and Staten Island.· Stamps are now commonly sold at grocery stores and all Wells Fargo ATMs.
groceries [plural] food and other goods that are sold by a grocer or a supermarket2 (also ˈgrocery store) [countable] American English a supermarket