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Supermarket vs Grocery - What's the difference?

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Grocery is a synonym of supermarket.



As nouns the difference between supermarket and grocery

is that supermarket is a large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing while grocery is retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

supermarket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods and/or clothing.
  • A chain of such stores.
    • (-)

    External links

    * ("supermarket" on Wikipedia) ----

    grocery

    English

    (wikipedia grocery)

    Noun

    (groceries)
  • (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
  • * 1776:
    • Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
  • * 1850 , '', ''The present time
    • Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
  • A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
  • * 1854:
    • I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery , the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

    Usage notes

    When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.

    Synonyms

    * (retail foodstuffs and household supplies) commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods * (store that sells groceries) general store, grocery store, market, supermarket

    Related terms

    * greengrocer * grocer * groceries

    References