commissary
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In 2010, Lucas formally proposed a museum on the former commissary site at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, but the Presidio Trust opened the location to competing proposals and ultimately rejected all three finalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Its 2,600 Los Angeles employees have access to a free commissary and an endless supply of cereal, packaged snacks and other prepared fare at small food stations scattered throughout the sprawling campus on Olympic Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He gets paid about fifty-three cents a day, which he can use at the prison commissary to buy toothpaste, snacks, stamps, and other miscellaneous items.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
The officer said he wasn’t aware of the change but that the vendor is Keefe Group, which supplies commissaries at prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
Per the WSJ video, the commissaries have already started working with Warabeya, a supplier to 7-Eleven Japan.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
His paternal grandfather, John Becker, a World War II lieutenant, started Eurpac, a nearly 70-year-old company that distributes to military commissaries and exchanges.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2019
They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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