grocery

Assistants sold groceries from open store fronts.

Walking outdoors, washing clothes, preparing food, independent travel (by car or train), shopping for groceries, managing money, doing heavy housework, doing light housework, and making phone calls.

I am horrified at the number of shopkeepers who are still prepared to deliver goods such as bread, milk, groceries and greengrocery.

The situation is so bad that a small shop selling basic groceries has had to be provided in the voluntary neighbourhood centre.

She would no longer be able to buy that bag of groceries—the shop would be shut because of bankruptcy.

Supermarkets have reduced the competition, particularly for groceries.

The sector where the increases are most widespread is groceries.

The customers would willingly pay higher prices for their groceries because of the saving in petrol and bus fares to the supermarket.

We do not intend that a commodity like education should be sold over the counter, like groceries, for vouchers.

There is one less than a quarter of a mile from here which sells groceries, a few magazines and paperbacks.

Nevertheless, the figure amounts to £27 million a year in dry groceries alone.

As with any business—such as groceries or the manufacture of shoes—there are two aspects.

They take the pensioners' groceries—certainly the immobile pensioners' groceries—out with them, hand over the pension at the same time and then give the change.

In addition to providing postal facilities, it sells groceries, stationery, newspapers, tobacco and many other goods.

There are ad hoc committees of wholesalers and retailers concerned with meat, flour, bread, milk, sugar, tea, and other provisions and groceries.