Grocery

Noun

 * 1) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
 * 2) * 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 * Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
 * 1) *1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
 * Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
 * 1) A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
 * 2) * 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 * I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

Thesaurus
appetizing store, bakery, bakeshop, bodega, butcher shop, creamery, dairy, deli, delicatessen, food shop, food store, fruit stand, grocery store, groceteria, health food store, meat market, pork store, superette, supermarket, vegetable store

Etymology
From grosserie:. Compare gross:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: бакалия
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雜貨店, 杂货店,  副食商店,  食品商店
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, elintarvikekauppa
 * French:
 * German: Lebensmittelladen
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 食料品店, 乾物屋
 * Macedonian: бакалница


 * Norwegian: dagligvarebutikk, storsenter, landhandel
 * Persian: بقالی
 * Portuguese: armazém, empório, mercado/mercadinho, quitanda, venda, mercearia
 * Russian: бакалея, продуктовый магазин
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: abarrotería, abastecedor  , abasto  , almacén  , bodega  , colmado   , despensa  , pulpería  , tienda de abarrotes  ,  tienda de barrio   , tienda de ultramarinos   , trucha  ,  ,  Spain

Synonyms

 * (retail foodstuffs and household supplies): commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods
 * (store that sells groceries): general store, grocery store, market, supermarket

Related terms

 * greengrocer
 * grocer
 * groceries