Definition of "grocery" []

• A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies. (noun)
• Commodities sold by a grocer. (noun)

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• "More recently Sara Lee has felt pressure from heavy price competition in grocery stores."
• "Bestsellers in grocery stores and airports and everything else online?"
• "Oenophiles, on the other hand, likely are torn between cursing newly-proposed taxes on wine and cheering a plan that would allow the sale of wine in grocery stores, a convenience available in many other states that New Yorkers have long coveted."