noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grocery chain
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These are two of Florida’s largest grocery chains.
a grocery list American English (= a list of food you want to buy )
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Did you put milk on the grocery list?
grocery shopping
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She even enjoys grocery shopping.
shoe/clothing/grocery etc store American English (= one that sells one type of goods )
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She worked in a grocery store before going to college.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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Fahrat, 20, who runs a small grocery , is desperate for customers: I don't make a profit.
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One glimpsed the fresh-fruit stands and small grocery store dotting the edge of a small world never available.
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Number 73 was just a doorway between a travel agent and a small grocery store, with three steps leading up to it.
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The boom has been fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products with even small grocery stores receiving up to 12 deliveries every day.
■ NOUN
bill
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It was a good little earner, it paid the grocery bills for the week - his own, anyway.
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Our ticket dollars pay their grocery bills .
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Like all social historians, I find more property deeds than grocery bills in the archives.
chain
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No one at Safeway Stores, the other major grocery chain in the Washington-Baltimore area, was available for comment.
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Saying they were losing money there, large grocery chains began moving out of inner-city neighborhoods in the 1980s.
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Likewise, a wholesale bakery believes that it is in the business of making bread and desserts for grocery chains .
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Kroger, a client of Goldman Sachs, has become the country's second-largest grocery chain with the help of junk bonds.
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The contract is expected to set the standard for contracts with other Northern California grocery chains and major independents.
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Nonprofit organizations are establishing partnerships with large grocery chains to bring supermarkets into low income neighborhoods.
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The A &038; P grocery chain ran a laundry in Belleville for cleaning and repairing their employees' work clothes.
list
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He had started a grocery list , but only got as far as coffee and sugar.
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How do you make up a grocery list or plan a career?
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Mymenus, which is sponsored by grocery stores nationwide, also provides a handy grocery list with every recipe.
shop
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He had not been able to buy himself provisions, both grocery shops were closed.
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The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
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Then she made her way to the little corner grocery shop , five minutes' walk from Jubilee Street.
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On cafe terraces or in grocery shops ?
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Now the grocery shops want the Prime Minister to intervene.
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I went into a nearby grocery shop to do my shopping and stood.
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Willie followed him next door into a chemist's shop and then into a grocery shop.
store
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His parents own the grocery store .
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Bernie takes his bland government sedan to the local grocery store and trundles his way down the fresh produce aisle.
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Constable Jamieson was talking to Mr Fox, who owned the grocery store .
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The percentage of disposable income spent at grocery stores and supermarkets has been declining since the 1970s.
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He went to the grocery store and bought food.
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Whether this was congenital, stemmed from growing up around a grocery store , or nerve induced, she sometimes wondered.
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More than 10 years would pass, however, before it appeared on grocery store shelves as Saran Wrap.
■ VERB
buy
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This could discourage people from driving ten miles to buy their groceries .
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List all the essential tasks from buying groceries to taking out the garbage.
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The market; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there.
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It was just enough to buy groceries in the evening on the bicycle.
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I wish they would buy all their groceries from the Cairnbaan Post Office as they meander past.
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So all he had to do was find a shop, buy the groceries , and come back.
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But places for them to eat, sleep and buy groceries or outdoors items are cropping up more often.
carry
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Carla had been carrying groceries to the car; she'd put the bags down on the sea wall to shake hands.
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Its aim was to become the single line of spices carried by most grocery stores.
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The other day for example, at a neighborhood market, I saw a woman carrying grocery bags open her car trunk.
find
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People sat around and discussed problems with their children and where to find cheap groceries .
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The cost is comparable to what you find at natural-foods groceries and farmers' markets.
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The morning of the move, Jerome talked about finding a grocery store near their new home.
sell
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Right in the centre of Church Street was a stall selling green groceries .
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To hold and expand volume, supermarkets took on nonfood lines, products that were not previously sold in grocery stores.
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He had sold wholesale groceries in Brooklyn and cheap tobacco in Yonkers and Staten Island.
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Stamps are now commonly sold at grocery stores and all Wells Fargo ATMs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I go to the grocery store.
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I reached the road, picked up my groceries, and left her in peace.
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It seems as though every day a new kind of cereal appears on the grocery shelves.
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Morenz put down the flowers and the groceries and moved down the passage.
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Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers, especially in the grocery trade.
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The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
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They buy some of the stuff at the grocery .