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Merchandise vs Groceries - What's the difference?

merchandise | groceries |

As a verb merchandise

is .

As a noun groceries is

the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery .

merchandise

English

Alternative forms

* merchandize , merchaundise (obsolete),merchaundize (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
    • ''good business depends on having good merchandise
  • (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
  • (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.

    Synonyms

    * wares * product

    Verb

    (merchandis)
  • (archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
    • He started his career merchandising in a small clothing store chain.
  • (archaic) To engage in the trade of.
  • To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
    • He got hired to merchandise some new sporting goods lines.
  • To promote as if for sale.
    • The record companies don't get as good a return on merchandising artists under contract.

    Related terms

    * mercantile * merchant * merchantable

    References

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    groceries

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery.
    • She carried a sack of groceries in from the car and set it on the kitchen table.
  • Multiple retailers of groceries.
    • There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither looked very profitable.