grocer
the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.
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How to use grocer in a sentence
The more they spend on their cards, the more their selected organization will receive directly from the grocer at the end of the year.
Kroger unknowingly funneled donations to a militant group. After the Capitol riots, it’s cutting it off. | Teo Armus | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostAir-freight is an option, though the grocer hopes that France and Britain will reach an agreement to reopen links, spokeswoman Victoria Durman said.
So instead of going for meal kit at a giant grocer, people can continue to support local businesses in creative ways.
In fact, one agency told Modern Retail that retailers — including grocers — are looking into building their own branded games.
How Roblox is paving the way for a new era of branded gaming | jim cooper | November 25, 2020 | DigidayMany local small businesses—the mom-and-pop grocer, the shoe store, even my barber—have struggled or gone under, leaving gaping holes in the fabric of our local downtown and business community.
The grocer associations and food companies face a political conundrum.
Supermarkets and Retailers Turn Blind Eye to Food Stamp Funding Cuts | Miranda Green | September 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCostco is doing very well for a grocer, but very poorly for a department store, the category to which Walmart technically belongs.
At Walmart, which is many peoples' grocer, clothier, and auto supply shop, long lines would cost them a lot of business.
His father was a gentle, honorable grocer, but his mother was “moody” and “humorless,” he said.
Mike Wallace Reconsidered: 6 Revelations From a New Biography | The Daily Beast | April 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the essay, Havel imagines a grocer hanging a "Workers of the World, Unite!"
John Avlon: Vaclav Havel's Heroic Politics of Truth and Responsibility | John Avlon | December 19, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTShe had once been almost as emphatic in expressing herself upon the subject as the corner grocer.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin"Maybe the grocer's wagon will be up before ten o'clock and he might carry you," suggested Mrs. Chester.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondIt proved to be a grocer's boy instead of Mr. Bills, and Mrs. Biggs came back just as Howard was presenting the slippers.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesGrosvenor square centre house valued at 10,000, was raffled for and won by Mrs. Hunt, a grocer's wife in Piccadilly.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe old grocer Auffray died at the time of the Empire without having had time enough to make his will.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
British Dictionary definitions for grocer
/ (ˈɡrəʊsə) /
a dealer in foodstuffs and other household supplies
Origin of grocer
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