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The one store where you enter for milk and leave financially and emotionally altered.
means A store (or the business of one) that sells food and household supplies — the everyday shop for provisions.
from Traces back to 'grocer,' which comes from Old French 'grossier,' meaning someone who sells in bulk ('gross,' or large quantities) rather than in small individual amounts. A grocer was originally a wholesale dealer; over time the word drifted toward the shopkeeper who sold those bulk goods — spices, dry goods, foodstuffs — to ordinary households, and 'grocery' became the word for both the shop and the goods themselves.
- origin
- from gross, meaning sold in bulk quantity
- placement trick
- milk sits farthest from the entrance deliberately
- checkout math
- candy aisle timed for bored, waiting children
- inflation tell
- shrinkflation hides price hikes in smaller packaging